With anything that is positive there are many many negatives to be considered as well.

So yes there is research going on with the hope in mind to deliver medications to the cancerous cells rather than the good cells. However, I would not be surprised if the government is watching this research very carefully for the possibilities of uses in the military. There are possibilities that this technology could also help with genetic coding in the future. Any preventive measures that can be made to save our children from being born with many of the birth defects out there would be great. My only concern is that eventually it will become a way that people make super humans or something. Right now genetics is also a very young science. Especially genetics therapy. There are a few diseases and genetic disorders that are treatable with genetic therapy. I can not recall the specifics but I do know that certain things can be done by enhalants and occationally by injection of genetic code. This code is often in the form of mRNA or other RNA Someetimes it is given in modified viruses. Its all very new and interesting. I am hoping that my school will offer the genetics class soon because I really would like to do further study into the way the whole thing works.

 

 

 

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Isn't that in the movie where they put this chip into some kid to get it into the country so they two sides fight over this kid, anyway cutting the story short they get the chip into the bad guy and they turn it on, then the nano chip cuts some artery so then the guy dies...

This if made would be the perfect assination technique thus saying bad people will kill more people.


Any way moving back to nano, Is whay they called it the Nano Ipod... no jokes of course i knew this. Quite intresting infact. Imagine they started making things that size, like microchips or something.

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yeah i been hearing alot of about nano tech even some tv shows done some fictional stuff with nano techm but i do believe some devices have been made like little nanobots, bit of course the price tag is no joke either when this stuff is being made like in the billions I think.

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the first time i readed the topics name, i thought it was something about the new Ipod Nano

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Well in english if we break it like this

nano- means a scientific specification when a entity is multiplied with 10 raised to power -9 meter, this will we not visible to the eye

Technology- we know is making something out of something

Well since everyone above has told about what it is i will tell you about its application ,i think i should talk about its application in the field of surgery,

We can make instruments that are smaller then our skin pores, that means for sergery we do not need to put a cut or bruise.
Also Nano robots can be used to operate on a human body,once they r programmed.

Ok Bye everyone

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THere is everything special about them. With a nanomachine, you can do virtually anything in terms of manipulating small scale matter. Let's look at diamond. To make the strongest diamond, you must have a fully carbon substance where each carbon will bond in a very specific cubic formation. It's extremely rare to have this occur in nature. Also, it won't be very useful. Now imagine a series of nanomachines that can assemble each diamond element and form them together in long threads. You would have very light and incredibly powerful cables. This is just one of the applications. You can use it in biomedical applications for attaching to and breaking down cancerous cells. Or, it can be used to repare blood vessels in people suffering from cardiovascular disease. It's not just smaller versions of materials. This can revolutionize the world.

 

 

 

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hasnt any one heard of the grey goo that apparently one scientist pridicted nano technology could turn into.

The theory behind this is that like when some one dies the nano bots live on and become indepent or something but anyway they get into groups or masses and they destroy everything that comes near them.

apparently prince charles him self wanted some kind of defence aginst the potiental future threat...or so I saw on a TV program...

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This idea of nanotechnology and nanobots invading your body to heal you or do whatever to you rings a bell with Michael Crichton's book - PREY.

It is an interesting science fiction that probably arouses the feelings that science and this nanotechnology may be just another step forward that destroys the environment and depletes resources, but is worse this time. It kills. Go read the book.

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Yes. This "grey goo" is about the potential risk of nanobots with self-replicating ability. Let's take this scenario: You build a nanobot consisting of several parts in order to cure cancer. The several parts are derived directly from the components of the cancerous cell. You think that you have located several membrane proteins that you can use to identify the cell as cancerous. The nanobot should latch onto this protein in order to activate the nanobot. It will then change its conformation to puncture the cell. Then, while still holding this membrane protein, it should decompose particles within the cell for use as components for replicating itself so the cycle could continue again. Since nanobots can degenerate as time progresses, once the cancerous cells have all been destroyed, the nanobots should also become destroyed. This is of course, the best case scenario for this process. Let's say that the engineer designing this nanobot made a minor mistake. Let's say that the cell has a component that looks almost like the necessary nanobot component, but actually changes the conformation so that the nanobot becomes activated automatically. (You think this isn't possible? Think again! Diseases like sickle-cell anemia are caused by only a single amino-acid difference.) In this case, let's say 50% assuming it's a very close isomer. In this case, the nanobot would attempt to puncture any cell it could find and use the normal cell to create the nanobots again. The ones that can replicate using any cell would create many more bots because of the much higher probability to find a normal cell than a cancerous cell in an organism's body (where 50% of the nanomachines will be the problematic bots). All organisms are made up of cells. Thus, these bots would devour the organism alive, and turn them into a grey goo. Sure, some cells will be left over due to their special membrane structure like bones for example... but everything else would be susceptible. If someone comes in contact with even one from the previous host, it could spell big problems since it could begin its cycle again. Also, the immune system won't help... they can't target these particles!

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yep this sounds much like what I read in prey. This is real scary, but anyway what is the current state of things with such research. Our body is very intricate and there are many things about it that we still do not fully understand, it is extremely dangerous to put things in us that are living, this nanobot could be another virus and since the immune system won't help, we'd be a gonner

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