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Aplicații ale nanotehnologiei în medicină
Applications of nanotechnology in medicine

Author(s): Lavinia Misăilă
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: Asociația Cultural Științifică „Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești”
Keywords: nanotechnology; molecular; application; projects;

Summary/Abstract: Nanotechnology is a collective term for technological developments at nanometric scale. In 1959, Richard Phillips FEYNMAN founded what would have become molecular nanotechnology. Then he said that the atoms can be assembled like Lego pieces. Even it looks like fiction, they may be realized medical robots with nanotechnology capable to move in the human body looking for infectious agents or for cancerous cells in order to destroy them, for making analyze or to reconstruct the damaged tissue. Nanotechnology is a future technology and it has led to some interesting projects, some of them are: artificial skin, Pill Cam and the robot how can cure blindness.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 505-510
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian