Wednesday 15 June 2011

Alister's nanoparticles just one step away from Reality

So these nanoparticles can deliver drugs. The next step is to engineer a nanoparticle that hosts biological material to enables the particle to fuse with the brain and central nervous system producing a parallel network that shares information with the human host. The rest is future-history; Alister's predicament becomes a reality.

'Catch and Release' Program Could Improve Nanoparticle Safety Assessment

Depending on whom you ask, nanoparticles are, potentially, either one of the most promising or the most perilous creations of science. These tiny objects can deliver drugs efficiently and enhance the properties of many materials, but what if they also are hazardous to your health in some way? Now, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to manipulate nanoparticles so that questions like this can be answered.

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