Nanoparticles

It is undeniable that technology had advance in crazy ways the last years with the main purpose to make our life easier, safer and better.

In medicine, for example, new surgical materials and devices allow patients have difficult surgeries in an easy and safe way. Therefore this technology has been safe a lot of lives.

As pharmaceutical chemistries, this technology directly affects us although it’s better to say that some of them, like nanoparticles, benefit us because they arrived to improve the way to deliver a drug.

Nanoparticles allow to get more specific receptors, reduce adverse effects and to get a better pharmacological effect, which means that patients will have a better treatment and they could increase their life expectancy.

This tech also allows developing new therapeutic targets, like the treatment of different kind of cancer. For example, last year, a scientific team from this faculty showed a research where they incorporated gold nanoparticles in microgels to obtain spatial and temporal control drug release, to prevent cancer recurrent and tumor metastasis.  It sounds amazing, doesn’t it?

Maybe in future, nanoparticles will be present in all drugs and we could eradicate some diseases or we could finally treat those “strange diseases”.

Probably at begging this new drugs won’t be cheap, but I believe nanoparticles are pharmacology’s future. What do you think?

Pets = Friends

When I was seven years old, a neighbor gave to me my first pet, a gray rabbit named Rabito. It was a funny and weird rabbit. It ate EVERYTHING on its way and it liked to play and sleep with my grandmother’s dog Monin. 

When I backed from school it was waiting for me at the front door and then it jumped around me… I imagine it was happy to see me, just like I was.

I also had three hamsters. The first one was Pikachu, a beautiful white hamster who liked to ride my brother’s toy cars. Then I had two new hamsters: Awesome 1 and Awesome 2… they were so ugly but so funny! They loved to play at their wheel and fight to each other.

                                        Awesome 1 and Awesome 2 at their first day at home.

All my pets died because of their age, but I still remember all their adventures with love, that’s the reason why I can’t choose one as my favorite.

Years passed after my family accepted to have another pet, because they still felt sad about my old ones. So four years ago we received a new dog and we named Chuck Norris.

Chuck came at home two months old like a little and nervous dog and six months later it was a big, strong and amazing dog! We like to walk every afternoon, play every time and of course, it eats all day long. Chuck understands everything we say and everything we feel, that’s why we love to stay side by side.

How not to love it?

                    before and after   

Best holidays ever!

If you ask about my favorite holidays so far, my answer is simple: Summer of 2016.

We rented a big house in Punta de Tralca, which has access to a little beach between an eucalyptus wood. We stayed twelve days there, but every day had something special and fun to remember.

We walked to the beach every morning, then we return to house for lunch and back to the beach at afternoon. The house also have a gazebo, so at nights, we prepare something special to eat.

Some days we also sailed by the sea, we went to near places, we visited new roads and we discovered beautiful landscapes and sunsets at the breakwater.

And of course, as every trip to the beach demands, some nights we went to those crazy and unsafe beach games… I love them jajaja.

It were some typical beach holidays but I keep good memories of those days.

I believe that they are so special to me because it was the first time that the all family enjoy their holidays together. We were fifteen persons (parents, brothers, boyfriend, grandparents, aunts, uncles) and my dog, Chuck.
How could you get bored living in that mess?

                     
                                 My little brother and my dog Chuck, enjoying its first holidays

Ice and Fire

Travel… what do you thinks when someone says travel? I bet you image beach and sunglasses. I think just the opposite: cold, rain and snow.

If I had the chance to travel any country I would chose Iceland, the land of ice and fire.

Iceland is an extreme country with just a few sunny days per year, but it has the most amazing landscape worldwide.  Although it’s a small country, you can find every kind of nature landscape in there, like woods, volcanoes, lava fields and geysers. Most of them are considered unique. I think visit some of them will be priceless…

In Iceland, people work for a sustainable development and you can learn a lot about it in some special tours. For example, I would like to know how they use the geyser's power to feed all the electric supply of their city… surprising, isn’t it?

Besides, Iceland is one of the happiest countries in the world, so there you have one more reason to visit it.

Even though I think it’s a great country, I wouldn’t live there just because I love my country so much and I can’t picture myself living somewhere else. I could study in there for a few month. I heard Reykjavik University has a Pharmacy program and even you can get a scholarship.

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