Today, as I sat in my seat, waiting, I learned something amazing that blew my mind. During the Nanotechnology lessons, I realized that Nanotechnology affects many subjects and broadens the subjects.
One of the main things nanotechnology affects greatly is medicine. In a field called nanomedicine, nanotechnology allows scientists and doctors to understand new things, create tools for disease diagnosis, find new methods for biology, and produce new drugs with limited amounts of side effects. Nanotechnology has allowed scientists to figure out medicine of the future like the microscale biobots. These microscopic bots are powered by muscle tissue. Through the use of nanotechnology, scientists have found extremely tiny cells called vaults.
Vaults are made up of three proteins and a small RNA. Though the scientists discovered this cell, many do not know its true purpose. Dos transport? Protect? Or simply regulate? No one truly knows the cell’s purpose, but many have thought of ways to use them. An idea is to use the cells to transport drugs to cancer cells to kill the cancer cells from the inside out.
Another subject that Nanotechnology affects is toxicology, which is the study and concern of the nature effects of toxins in the environment. Nanotoxicology revolves around the concern of the negative effects of Nanotechnology in the environment. One concern is the utilization of nano silver. All silver has the property to kill bacteria, making a surface clean and odorless. Due to this property, many companies created clothes that have nano silver on them. The problem is that little amounts of nano silver are washing off the clothing and going down the drain, killing every bacteria, either good or bad. Ergo, Nanotechnology has many positives to assist the human population but also has many negative side effects.
http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/
http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/nanomedicine/
http://www.physorg.com/news4068.html
http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=7541.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotoxicology