Treatment

At present, treatment of illness tends to use quite old-fashioned, well-established methods. These methods are obviously not always entirely successful, with general solutions and treatments often being applied to very specific problems.

Furthermore, current healthcare can often cause additional problems such as rejection or a bad reaction to a transplant.

Nanotechnology can help to address some of these issues, in a number of ways. It will be possible to provide personalised medicine designed for individual patients and their particular illness.

The danger of implant rejection can be minimised through ‘body-friendly’ nano-coatings, whilst there are also new techniques being developed to allow drugs to be more accurately targeted.

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