Social attitudes Flashcards
What is 4P principles? How nanotechnology can help implement it?
Predictable: early diagnosis by imaging
Preventative: vaccines
Personalized: find biomarkers each patient –> adjust treatment according to pathway. gene silencing.
Participative: encourage dialogue for when applying genetics and life-style aspects to the treatment
How can NP help personalized medicine?
Personalized medicine is an approach where you treat the patient rather than the disease.
Every person is different, different genetics, different tolerance against certain drugs, different metabolism, different biomarkers.
For a single disease there may be several pathways and ‘reasons’ for it to occur
A pre-set dosage may be too high for someone, where side effects occur, while another person with the same dose may see no effect because the dose is too small.
Personalized will be tailored for each patient –> better results!
NPs can help target biomarkers, can be loaded with gene silencing elements, antibodies on surface to find specific target tissue/tumor–>avoid systemic effects
Ethical dilemmas of Nanotech?
Social aspect: Very expensive, if used within medicine –> treatment pricy. Accessible to some people with a lot of money, but not everyone
Attitude wrong –> stop development
-High dependence on unique medicine - what if the supply is cut?
-Non conventional use of nanomaterial - enhance sports performance, bioterrorism?
medical use, animal models?
