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Nanotechnology and drug delivery

Approximately 99 per cent of medicinal molecules don’t reach their targets and subsequently, stay in the body of the patient. As these molecules can sometimes be very toxic – particularly in the case of those designed to target cancers – research is being undertaken into more effective ways of safely transporting and delivering drugs.

A challenge for nanotechnology in this research is to create a device which can carry a drug payload to it’s target, be monitored throughout it’s journey and deliver, without being attacked and destroyed by the body’s natural defences. This calls for something which possesses stealth design characteristics and a plausible device is described here in this movie.

This is one of a selection of intriguing movies which are available for free download from the EPSRC Nanotechnology Image Library at : http://www.nanoscience.dept.shef.ac.uk/images/

You may also be interested in navigating to the “Soft Machines” site belonging to Professor Richard Jones – who features in this movie – for up-to-date discourse on all things nano. Here’s the link : http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/

Duration : 0:3:18


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14 Responses to “Nanotechnology and drug delivery”

  1. I say the main …
    I say the main causes of wars had always been power, government and militaries…
    Everytime we got new technology, leaders always make citizens pay the hard way.

    Ex.) nuclear bomb, etc…

  2. Did anyone even …
    Did anyone even hear that? they ARE trying to trick our body’s immune system, so the “drug” can slip through our defence system. And base on history, new technology always have a chance to be use as a weapon, and by altering this technology into a virus biological weapon, can anyone see what is wrong with that??

  3. excellent work!
    excellent work!

  4. here we will give …
    here we will give you cancer, then we sell you the cure too! Get you coming and going

  5. Transfectingood on October 13th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    ……sources?
    ……sources?

  6. Believe me they …
    Believe me they already have it, and if they don’t they will aquire it by any means.

  7. We have many …
    We have many wonderful technologys that really could be used for the greater good. Unfortunately the military industrial complex owns the patents for them all. They either buy them or bullie them out of the inventors. That way they can create more High Tech weapons and bio-weapons to keep us cattle under-control.

  8. For every good …
    For every good there is a bad. We’ll see wonders beyond our comprehension, and cruelties on the same scale.

  9. belereth ur ffuckin …
    belereth ur ffuckin crazy

  10. Tergets? Payload? …
    Tergets? Payload? Attacked and destroyed? Hmm, militaries cant wait for this stuff I guarantee.

    I wonder if I will be molecularly disassembled someday by these.

  11. vedio and audio
    vedio and audio

  12. what is to stop …
    what is to stop evil people from getting a hold of this to lets say deliver a lethal payload? This is a brave new world type stuff scary.

  13. wow i really love …
    wow i really love this idea

  14. What a wonderful, …
    What a wonderful, amazing and challenging development. This is one of the reasons i decided to study enginery.
    Simply brilliant!!

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