Nano medicine – A promising cure for cancer?

Nano technology is one the phenomenal tool in the field of medicine where the cure for diseases became much easier. The resources being implemented into nanotechnology across the research world seems to indicate that nano medicine may become a common part of healthcare. Nanotechnology also increases the efficiency of pharmaceutical research. The most significant factor of nano medicine or Nano technology is its targeted nature where it reduces the time taken for the researchers to observe feedback on several trials and treatments which they perform.

                  

Focusing on the targeting nature of the Nano technology tools scientists have developed a tool which targets only the cancerous cells reducing the side effects and other issues which are caused by the treatment of chemotherapy. Nano probes were developed where the cancer cells can be destroyed by overheating the probes using the magnetic field. Clinical trials of this treatment were performed in the mice and they were more likely to survive and recovered within few days. Meanwhile, tiny particles of gold alloys were passed into the bloodstream where they can be heated and would be able to destroy the cancer cells. Gold no 79 in the periodic table was chosen because it was prone to absorb the infrared heat. The researchers also figured out how to attach the gold to colorectal-cancer-cell-seeking antibodies that delivered the gold to cancer cells. Recent advancements for breast cancer also showed that a nanoparticle which includes the cancer drug named doxorubicin and short strands of RNA block the genes that are responsible for the causing cancer and this is widely practiced across the globe.