I believe the ‘Next Big Thing’ will be in the health and medicine field. Nanoparticles are now being tested on human subjects to detect diseases and even battle cancer. Research is being done to produce nanoparticles to enter in human cells and help the body’s immune system fight and even prevent cancer and other serious illnesses.
These nanoparticles have been used to detect potentially fatal infections when time is precious and test results will take too long. Sepsis, an infection of the blood, usually takes three days to get test results back to confirm or deny the bacteria present. In three days the patient, if they are infected, would be dead. Nanoparticles have been used to determine infection and report diagnostics identifying all the specific bacteria that are present in about TWO HOURS.
These nanoparticles are being applied to treat brain injury, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and to be used as a new broad-spectrum antibiotic.
Google has gotten involved in this R&D for the “cancer-detection pill”. I think that we will see this technology a lot sooner than imagined.
Web Sources Used:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/google-health-tech-enterprise-7-ventures-watch-entering-ocano
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/nanoparticles-and-the-future-of-medicine/
