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in order to meet the demand for rapid development in the modern world.
one hand, its marvellous power has been recognized as ‘far stranger than
cases such as drug delivery, tissue engineering and blood purification (The
other hand, nanotechnology still holds uncertain effects on human body. The
2006).
This essay aims to evaluate the health concerns related to this technology.
being biocompatible.
Fortunately, scientists could stop being anxious about this problem by means
and biocompatible with the human body. Hence, it may be used as part of
aerogels that has high strength and low weight by sol-gel techniques.
demonstrated to fuse two pieces of chicken meat into a single piece, making
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1.2. Cancer treatment
only restrict to some extent of inhibiting cancer cells and lack for selectivity
tools that not only disseminate efficiently and are endurable with sheer drug
volume but approach substances that either absorb or repel water in diverse
al. in 2012. This contributes to a new era of imaging with high speed and
(ibid.)].
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Last but not least, the authors appreciated the study of Puvanakrishnan et al.
(2012) which deals with gold nanorods for high-contrast imaging in specific
process deals with each small amounts of blood, then the nanoparticles which
with which blood was spiked, was attained. It took 30 minutes to diffuse the
2011).
in clinical scale. In the future, this promisingly special technique brings hope
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for patients who have complicate trouble with sepsis and autoimmune, for
example (ibid.).
2. Possible detriments
2.1. Size
sized particles exist in human body, they are usually eaten by specialised
dermal contact, are able to infiltrate biological membranes and enter blood
carried to and absorbed by internal organs, composing the, brain, heart, liver,
into tissue and cell development. The adverse effects were recorded in
Royal Society & The Royal Academy of Engineering, 2004). The Health &
Environment Alliance (HEAL) also cited the study of Nel et al. (2003) which
produce harmful effects in releasing energy of cells, and even cell death.
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2.2. Chemical composition
and metal oxides. This essay only deals with the toxicity of titanium dioxide
However, following the study of Donaldson et al. (1996) and Long et al.
(2006), a report of HEAL (2008) indicated the opposite side. After 24 hours
to cause cancer of skin and colon lining in experiments of Zhang et al. 2004
connect fish brain damage, water fleas’ death by Oberdörster et al. (2004)
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Basing on the work of Fortner et al. (2004), HEAL have also demonstrated
the toxicity of water soluble fullerenes on human liver, the lining of intestine
and skin connective tissue even in small amount of exposure. This raises
serious concerns that whether fullerenes would ‘eat’ cell nuclei when
cells. And in the presence of biological reducing agents (e.g. NADH) similar
destroyed supercoiled DNA following test tube studies Goda 2003 (ibid.)’
medical techniques, rescuing several people from death and opening a new
era of medicine that we may never imagine. On the other hand, it also
which cannot be ignored. Hence, there is a need of more accurate and reliable
detriments associated with nanosized materials. At the same time, the value
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