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?