Conclusion

As a conclusion to this topic I would like to say that Nanotechnology is a brand new technology that has just began, it is a revolutionary science that will change all what we knew before. The future that we were watching just in science fiction movies will in the near future be real. This new technology will first of all, keep us healthy because of nanorobots that will repair every damage that we have in our body.Secondly it will give scientists the ability to manipulate the combination of atoms in an object and to turn it into a lighter, stronger, and more durable object than before, just by using carbon nanotubes that are known to be a hundred times stronger than steel and in addition to that they are very flexible. That will lead to the creation of objects that can change their forms and have multiple purposes as the Nokia Morph for example which is a prototype that will soon be out on the market. Thirdly, Nanotechnology will give us an abundant energy because it will transform energy more effectively, for example windmills which are known to have the ability to transform wind energy into electrical energy, well new windmills that will use Nanotechnology will have lighter and stronger blades (using carbon nanotubes) that will transform a lot more energy than before.
Nanotechnology covers a lot of domains today and will cover a lot more in the near future, it is infinitely big and will make a lot of inventions come true like teleportation for example which scintists are working on today.

nanomedicine and cancer

Source: International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review & Research; Nov2010, Vol. 5 Issue 3.

Authors: Shah, Avani   avanishah86@yahoo.com
              Shah, Prasun

This article is a scholarly journal and it is a current one since it was published in the 22/12/2010, so of course I will be using it for current information.

I think that the intended audience is the general public because basing on the abstract, the authors define what is Nanomedicine so I don’t think they will be giving such a basic definition if it was intended for experts. The authors that have written this article are really credible because they hold important jobs in their lives, even though these jobs do not have any relation with Nanomedicine but nonetheless they couldn’t have written on a complicated topic as such if they didn’t have enormous information about it.

The purpose of this article is to inform the audience about a revolutionary new medicine that can cure cancer without leaving any secondary effects not like the old methods that were used before.

Unfortunately the author doesn’t refer to any primary or secondary source from where he got his information. Nonetheless I think that this article is going to be a really interesting source of information for my research paper because it has been published in an extremely reliable electronic resource. 

NEW GLOBAL FRONTIERS IN REGULATION "The Age Of Nanotechnology"

PublicationInfo.

Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2007 The age of nanotechnology.

 

    The editors of the book are Graeme Hodge, Diana Bowman and Karinne Ludlow.

Their achievements:

èProfessor Graeme Hodge is the Director of the Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies in the Law Faculty at Monash University. He has a BEng, MEngSc, MBA, and a PhD degree.

èDr Diana Bowman is a Senior Research Fellow in the Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies and she has a PhD, LLB and a BSc(Physiol).

èDr Karinne Ludlow has a professional background in commercial and intellectual property law and she has a PhD, LLB (Hons) and BSc.

This information is from: http://www.law.monash.edu.au/staff/dbowman.html

This book was published by the Monash University in 2007 and it is a non-profit publisher. So I use it for current information even though Nanotechnology evolve every year, nonetheless I didn’t find a newer book.

The intended audience for this book is the general public because the book  gives a general approach to what nanotechnology is, by mentioning its definition, benefits and disadvantages.

The purpose of this book is to inform about the basics of nanotechnology and to give us its ethical points.  I think that it is very useful for a person wants to have a general idea about the topic because the people who wrote it are very credible as we saw above.

                

2 sources for Nanomedicine

NANOMEDICINE AND CANCER
Authors:  Shah, Avani¹ avanishah86@yahoo.com
                 Shah, Prasun

 Sources: International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review & Research; Nov2010, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p155-159, 5p, 4 Color Photographs, 1 Chart.


Nanomedicine Faces Barriers.

Authors: Debbage, Paul¹
             Thurner, Gudrun 

Sources: Pharmaceuticals; Nov2010, Vol. 3 Issue 11, p3371-3416, 46p, 3 Color Photographs, 4 Diagrams, 1 Graph.

Why did I choose this topic and what did I learn from it?

Nanotechnology is one of the best topics that have fascinated me throughout my life. It is a technology that has no limits. It can attend to the imaginary world that we were just watching in science fiction movies (the future). Now it appears that scientists are evolving in this domain so as to attend this science fiction future, earlier than we have ever imagined before.

I have learned a lot of things about this new technology throughout my researches, like for example in the nanomedicine field, I learnt that nanotechnology is in its way to cure all types of cancer; in addition to that I have learned that this technology can change the arrangement of molecules in an object and turn the object to a more lighter, stronger and more durable object than before…

As you can see I have just stated some extremely small points that nanotechnology can do, but of course it can do  a lot more. A lot of things have already been accomplished and a lot of things will be accomplished in the near future.

So my specific purpose to learn from this technology is to know how it can evolve in the medical field and to know what is its limit in that field. The question that nobody can still answer is:"Can this new technology attend to the level of curing all types of diseases?"

A small introduction to the extremely huge world of the Nantotechnology

WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY?

Nanotechnology, perhaps you’ve heard the term in many places, but what in the world is this new technology? The nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter (A matter is any object that has a mass and occupies a space) to make it do what we want it do at the molecular or what scientists call it, at the nano scale. One nanometer equals one billion of a meter.  Just to give you an idea of how small a nanometer can be well an ant is about  5 million nm long, a red blood cell is 7500nm, a DNA is 2nm long another example is that if you take a single hair from your head you notice how it is very thin, well it if you take something which is a 100000 times thinner than that, that's a nanometer. So nanotechnology is really something which is extremely small. 

 

This information is based on " oknano.com" & "kqed.org/quest"