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From wearable to injection technology
Scientists at Harvard University are developing injection technology with a diameter of 100 microns. It can be applied to the brain to control or treat disease.
Angela Bernardo
LABELS: MEDICINE, INJECTION TECHNOLOGIES, NOSE TECHNOLOGIES
In the fantasy movie "Time" the dream of the elixir of youth has come true. People don't age, but at 25 they only have twelve months to live. A digital clock placed under the forearm shows them how much time they have left. This injection technology can be modified if they win minutes, hours or days. And it is that money does not exist: it is time to extend life.
Although the dystopian world that Andrew Niccola's work
offers is far from reality, the truth is that some of the technological advances
that he represents may be closer and closer. In a scenario where wearable
technology allows diabetics, for example, to control glucose levels through
tattoos, research continues to look for ways to improve people's lives.
As promising as it may sound, wearable technology cannot
reach the level of the brain. That is why we have to go one step further: move
on to injection technologies. With its help, we could, for example, control the
activity of neurons or stimulate the regeneration of neurons in certain damaged
areas. Science fiction or reality?
After creating the first transplant microchips, a group of scientists at Harvard University set about creating electronic injection devices with a fine needle. Their results, published in Nature Nanotechnology, demonstrate that injection technologies up to 100 microns in diameter can be produced.
These systems can be inserted into biological cavities inaccessible to conventional portable devices and then used until the correct shape is achieved. The introduction of these first electronic components in dense gels, tissues and cavities gave a yield of more than 90%. As Charles Lieber explains, "Injection technology has the potential to be revolutionary."
Its development also provides the opportunity to investigate
what happens to the mixed structures of electronic and biological components.
But what could have been used? As explained in Nature Nanotechnology, these
devices can track what happens inside cavities, biologically or not, integrate
into different regions of the brain without eliciting an immune response, and
record neuronal activity in vivo. Amazing applications that show the immense
potential of injection technology.
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