文档介绍：ENGINEERING BETTER MEDICINES: THE IMPACT OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
Brendan Rosko (******@)
Small Warriors Tackle a Grand Foe
In 2008, the National Academy of Engineering chose 14 distinct challenges for engineers the world over. Each one pertains to a different social discipline. Several are chemically in depth, while others are challenges that require a civil or industrial solution. One of the grand challenges is to engineer better medicines—medicines that can tackle ic predispositions to certain diseases or infections. This is the most crucial of all the challenges, simply because it is aimed at directly improving human life and medicinal integrity. Engineering better medicines is the most important of the grand challenges because in essence it is a quest to cure today’s diseases while preventing tomorrow’s pandemic.
There is one new innovation that remains a solid foundation for creating new medicines—the integration of nanotechnology in the delivery of specific drugs. Nanoparticles have e essential in improving the accuracy of drug dosing. Nanoparticles can range anywhere from 1-100 nanometers in size, which makes it possible for about 200 billion to fit on the head of a pin [1]. I firmly believe that the use of nanoparticles has played an enormous role in increasing the precision of drug dosing.
Many modern innovations have e vital in society; however, not one is fr