NANOMEDICINE

Nanomedicine is dedicated to the design of drug release nanosystems, it comprises three main areas:

Nanodiagnosis

It brings us closer to powerful imaging and analysis techniques, which allow us to detect diseases in their initial stages, allowing direct impact on pathogenic cells or affected areas, leaving healthy ones intact.

Regenerative Medicine

Through tissue engineering, it allows the controlled growth of organs.

Nanotherapy It provides us with effective and selective therapies, through radiotherapy through the intelligent release of drugs, which allows us to reduce their molecular degradation throughout the body. The simple act of taking a pill is a long journey for the medicine. This must overcome the stomach, reach the intestine intact and then cross the intestinal wall to reach the bloodstream; once there, the liver will do the filtering before the journey continues, passing through membranes or defending itself against enzymes designed to chop it up into useless fragments.

Nanomedicine Applications

Microchipping to Overcome Molecular Degradation

Through a microchip, the programmed release of drugs by remote control from outside the body is possible. This system is capable of storing hundreds of medicines, which can be administered in very precise doses and in different parts of the body.

Electronic Pills

This pill is ingested and travels through the gastrointestinal tract, in addition to distributing medications, it obtains information from the body, such as temperature, acidity, blood supply, among other data of interest, and transmits it wirelessly.

Genetic Modification of Algae

Diatoms are tiny algae that act as transport and intelligent release of drugs, which travel in a safe and controlled way, destroying 90% of cancer cells and leaving healthy cells intact.

Bacteria Against Cancer

Genetically modified strains of bacteria are capable of delivering toxic payloads to cancer cells. When this strategy is used in combination with conventional anticancer drugs, the therapy is much more effective.

Rejuvenating Artificial Skin

A biocompatible polymer has been developed, which with excellent results behaves like a second skin, capable of stretching our tissues and thus concealing wrinkles; This second skin has therapeutic potential, to treat pathologies such as dermatitis and eczema.

Molecular Transport

This system allows small molecules, proteins and even genetic material to be introduced into the body; which allows to eliminate the symptoms of a disease caused by the absence of a gene.

Quantum Dots as a Diagnostic Tool

Quantum dots are clusters of atoms, with a diameter ranging between 2nm and 10nm. These absorb and emit light of different wavelengths, that is, colors, through the phenomenon known as luminescence; They are very useful as biological markers, diagnostic tools in medicine.

Nanoshells as a Diagnostic Therapy Tool

The Nanoshell consists of a metallic layer, usually gold, that covers a silicon structure, to which molecules capable of recognizing and adhering to damaged cells are incorporated; when the nanoshell is illuminated with infrared radiation, it can penetrate tissues to reach the area of interest, it responds as if it were a very small light source that scatters the components that have been added to it.

Nanoshells as a Diagnostic Therapy Tool

The Nanoshell consists of a metallic layer, usually gold, that covers a silicon structure, to which molecules capable of recognizing and adhering to damaged cells are incorporated; when the nanoshell is illuminated with infrared radiation, it can penetrate tissues to reach the area of interest, it responds as if it were a very small light source that scatters the components that have been added to it.