Ann Schmierer, Ph.D discusses the aggressive investment the Georgia Institute of Technology has made in biotechnology in faculty and infrastructure. Georgia Tech specializes in interdisciplinary innovation combining engineering, bioinformatics, and nano-medicine among others. Dr. Schmierer also discusses her personal interest and career in biotechnology.
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Stems cells can help repair damaged arteries, but it is difficult to get them to target problem areas. Nanotech correspondent Karine Thate tells how scientists at the University College London have figured out a way to use magnets to help direct the cells. Watch this videocast to learn how this method works.
I’m feeling sick, but modern medicine has no cure for the common cold. I speculate about the future of medical technology. Will nanomachines offer a solution? Could this technology also be used for evil? Yes! I’ll explain the insidious potential. Music: Philip Glass
Using a nanorobot to deliver nano medicine?!! As in reality, putting a small metalic object in the human body will only result in it getting covered in proteins!
A brief intro to the NISE Network’s Nanomedicine Exhibit. To learn more about the exhibit, check out nisenet.org/catalog.
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 : www.nanoscience.dept.shef.ac.uk 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 : www.softmachines.org