Nanomedicine

Taught by Tibor Siser ( Croatia ), illustrated by Yana (Russia) and Lakelyn (USA)

Welcome to our House of Knowledge! Welcome to my lesson! I'm really honored to join my American partners in this wonderful topic.

Derek and Jordan explained you lots of interesting facts about Nanotechnology.
I must say that I didn't know much about it, but when I have read their lesson, I got thrilled and decided to explore more about Nanotechnology, "the future of science", as they say.

Nanotechnology in medicine could be reality indeed!

Nanomedicine is the application of nanotechnology in medical science and diagnosis. Nanotechnology is the science that works on researches, development and implementation of microscopic tiny structures and materals. The basic unit of measurement for the dimension used in nanotechnology is called nanometer. Nanometer is a billionth part of one meter.

I have found some amazing information:

• The newspaper page is about 100 000 nanometers thick!
• My single hair is about 80 000 nanometers!
• The red blood cell' s diameter is about 2500 nanometer!
• One bacteria is about 1000 nanometers long!
• A virus is about 100 nanometers long!
• Your DNA is only 2.5 nanometers in diameter!

After all, I'm definitely Nanotechnology supporter.
I believe that the scientists, in near future, will produce tiny devices to perform surgery and medical interventions on human's body. These small robots called nanodevices or nanomachines, will have microscopic small computer chips with instructions for performing specific tasks. It's astonishing that these complicated devices would be constructed of elements of about only 100 nanometers.That is 25 times less than a diameter of one red blood cell!
Since the nanodevices are so small, they will be able to travel through our thin capillaries and bring oxygen into our anemic tissue.
They will eliminate stratum that leads to thrombosis. They will remove sickness from the brain cells and even destroy viruses and bacteria and other causes of infectious deseases.

I would like to see Nanomedicine in our everyday life. Many sick people would be cured and have a life full of joy.