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It's a time where the lines between computer support and human support are changing. In Nassau County computer repair means humans fixing computers. In Suffolk County computer repair means humans fixing computers. But in the halls of many major universities studies are underway that would flip the relationship. Computer repair would mean essential body immune response would be done by miniature computers. Nanotechnology has evolved and it is about to alter the world. One of the major fields of change will be in the health industry.

Nanotechnology is the application of technology using miniscule materials. A nanometer is a unit of measurement. Nanotechnology useunits running between 1 and 100 nanometers. If you took 800,000 nanometers and set them side by side it would be about the width of a hair. That's small stuff. Being able to operate and manipulate elements on such a tiny scale holds great potential benefit in the medical arena. Many institutions and researchers are engaged in exciting studies that could change the face of health care. Some changes are already occurring.

Currently there are many different studies using nanotechnology in a variety of ways. One area of interest is in how nanotechnology can help in diagnosing and treating cancer. A major downside to cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, is that it is a shotgun approach to treating the body. Normal and cancer cells are assaulted. With nanotechnology only cancer cells can be treated. There are studies that employee RNA strands that can find and attach to cancer cells. These strands, when connected can deposit cancer fighting drugs into the afflicted cells. Research has also considered the possibility of creating a color coding system using nanotechnology that would create protein indicators that would attach to cancer cells making them easier to trace. An additional application nanotechnology in the fight against cancer is nanoshells. Nanoshells are made of minute beads with various densities made of gold. These shells are drawn to cancer cells, surround them and then are heated with near infrared light which destroys the cancer cells, but spares the nearby healthy cells not surrounded by nanoshells.

Nanodevices would be tiny enough to operate inside a cell. They would be so small that they would be able to engage proteins and DNA. They would be able to monitor the cell and detect disease using a smaller quantity of cell tissue. This means that diseases and change in cell tissue could be monitored and detected sooner. Because fighting cancer successfully depends on early detection, this would be a major advance in cancer fighting technology.

Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing area of science that combines many disciplines including; physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and many other sciences including political and social science. With ongoing discoveries in all different fields, the world of Nanotechnology will be fully upon us.

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