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Nanothreads to "spin" new tissues?

October 30th 2007 13:58

Cell sized nano threads can be used to spin living cells as published in Scientific American journal News on 2nd October.

Recent research at the University College, London has lead to the discovery of a method of using just pressure to spin nano threads on living heart tissues. This can help in the regeneration of the heart and can also be used to "create" fresh skin. This is an extension of the application of nanotechnology in the field of heath sciences in a novel area where its need is great. Such research will lead to potential techniques to heal irreversible damages to the skin such as with burns or for heart cell damage as seen in associated with heart attacks

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Nanothreads to "spin" new tissues?

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Nanotechnology in Medicine

September 1st 2007 04:08

Small is beautiful but with nanotechnology small can become powerful. Disease and ill health are largely caused by damages at the molecular and cellular level. Today's surgical tools are, at this scale, large and crude and from the viewpoint of a cell, even a fine scalpel is a blunt instrument more suited to tear and injure than heal and cure. Modern surgery works only because cells have a remarkable ability to regroup, bury their dead and heal over the injury.

Nanotechnology, "the manufacturing technology of the 21st century," will help build a broad range of complex molecular machines (including, molecular computers). It will let us build fleets of computer controlled molecular tools much smaller than a human cell and built with the accuracy and precision of drug molecules. Such tools will let medicine, for the first time; intervene in a sophisticated and controlled way at the cellular and molecular level. They could remove obstructions in the circulatory system, kill cancer cells, or take over the function of sub cellular organelles. Just as today we have the artificial heart, so in the future we could have the artificial mitochondrion

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Nanotechnology: Aid for the new era Spiderman?

August 31st 2007 08:07

I recently read an article published in Technology review and found the topic very interesting. A carbon nanotube based adhesive tape has been developed after extensive research to aid climbing walls!

The study of this theory of developing adhesions based on the wall climbing skills of Spiders and Geckos has been going on for some time as an article was published in the Journal of Physics on August 2002 regarding this. Though climbing walls has been envisioned and portrayed for a long time, there have been no real developments to make this a reality

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