IMPACT OF NANOTECHNOLOGY ON MEDICINE

Nanotechnology may have its biggest impact on the medical industry. For instance, consider patients drinking medical fluids containing nano-robots programming to attack and reconstruct the molecular structure of cancer cells and viruses to make them harmless.
Diseases are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level. Today’s surgical tools are, at this scale, large and crude. Modern surgery works only because cells have a remarkable ability to regroup, bury their dead and heal over the injury. Nano-robots could also be programmed to perform delicate surgeries. Nano-surgeons could work at a level a thousand times more precise than the sharpest scalpel available today. By working on such a small scale, a nano-robot could operate seamlessly without leaving the scars that conventional surgery does.


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