Nanomedicine and the future of space exploration.

Posted by Jose Feneque, DVM on March 1, 2008 at 12:18am
Greetings from Georgia, USA.Lets see if we can increase the traffic to this group. Anybody up to talk about nanomedicine and its role in space exploration. For example :(a) The use of nanomedical devices for remote monitoring of the health of astronauts.(b) The use of nanotechnology to prevent and control radiation poisoning wich may have some applications here on Earth also.Talking about remote monitoring I would like to encourage somebody to work in the field of veterinary id microchips. So far the microchips in use here in the USA only provide us with an id number that help in the recovering of lost pets. I think it would be something great if somebody using nanotechnology applications can made those microchips more useful. For example made the microchip provide us with certain information as heart rate, body temperature and oxygen levels. This can made veterinary office visits less stressfull to the pets plus with an appropriate software the owners can transmit that data via Internet to the veterinary hospital.Any comments are welcome!

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  • Michael McDonald aka CaptNano June 28, 2008 at 11:19pm
    Greeting Jose',
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  • Debajeet Kumar Bora June 5, 2008 at 6:02pm
    Hello sir,

    Me Debajeet from IITg ,India working in the field of nanomedicine.Especially with a application in the cancer .You idea of remote monitoring of astronaut health is relaly fascinating .By having a glimpse of your idea ,a query is being raise in my brain.As you are invoved in the vatenary sector i think you could have better answer for my question.Can you send some animal in space with neoplastic syndrome so that we can monitor their physiological condittion with these kind of biomedical microdevices?
    • Jose Feneque, DVM > Debajeet Kumar Bora June 5, 2008 at 6:26pm
      Hi Debajeet. Once we have a more "inteligent microchip" we may be able to do projects like that. It would be interesting to see how neoplasia behave at zero gravity in space or in the gravity of planet Mars. More interesting would be to observe the behavior of neoplasia of different species of animals under zero gravity conditions. Using different species of animals may be useful to establish tables of comparisons before we jump to the following logical step (human studies). I think the advances of nanomedicine can be one very important aspect of space exploration.
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