The Nano World and Gene Therapy Flashcards
The greek word for dwarf
Nano
The prefix nano means?
A factor of one billionth (10^-9) in the metric system
Philippine Priorities for Nanotechnology
- Nano-based Technologies/Materials
- Nanosesors and Nanodiagnostics (Food, Agriculture and Forestry, and Health)
- Nanosensors and Diagnostics (Materials Testing Laboratory)
- Nanostructured Solar Energy Devices and Storage
Philippine Priorities for Nanotechnology:
For Water and Waste Water Purification, and Nano – based Engineering/ Industrial Materials
Nano-based Technologies / Materials
Nanosensors and Nanodiagnostics: for detection of contaminants
Food
Nanosensors and Nanodiagnostics: for detection of diseases
Agriculture and Forestry
Nanosensors and Nanodiagnostics: for Filipino ethnicity-based nanodiagnostics
Health
Philippine Priorities for Nanotechnology:
For National Solar Cell R&D Testing Facility
Nanostructured Solar Energy Devices and Storage
Applications of Nanotechnology
- Medicine
- Electronics
- Environment
- Consumer Products
- Sporting Goods
Introduction of genes into existing cells
Gene Therapy
Correcting defective genes responsible for disease development
Gene Therapy
Type of cell that can divide over and over and produce more stem cells as well as descendant cells that turn into different types of cells.
Stem Cell
Examples of Stem Cell and Gene Therapy
o Somatic Cell Gene Therapy
o Germ Line Gene Therapy
Two Conceptual Distinctions Central to Understand the Ethical Issues of Gene Therapy
- Therapy vs. Enhancement
- Somatic vs. Germ Line Gene Therapy
Ethical Issue of Gene Therapy:
Gene therapy should be therapy, rather than enhancement
Therapy vs Enhancement
Ethical Issue of Gene Therapy:
Most somatic therapies will probably require repeated applications, much like ordinary pharmacological treatments
Somatic vs. Germ Line Gene Therapy
Used to refer to objects with dimensions on the order of 1-100 nanometers.
Nanoscale
concentrated on particles with at least 1 dimension of less than 100 nanometers.
Nanotechnology
A field of research and innovation concerned with building things generally, materials and devices on the scale of atoms and molecules.
Nanotechnology
Tasked to oversee government-funded research and development funding in this nanotechnology.
DOST
The ability of nanotechnology to be able to influence medicine is called
Nanomedicine
Innovations of Nanotechnology in electronics
- Increase capabilities of electronics while reducing weight and power consumption
- Increase density of memory chips
- Reduces the size of transistors that is used in integrated circuits
The first scientific word involving gene transfer was described in
1944
Gene Therapy involved two strains of pneumococcus;
Pathogenic and Non-Pathogenic
