Microscopic Machines could produce Medicine directly inside your Body

Futurists have long speculated that nanotechnology — the engineering of materials and devices at the molecular scale — will eventually revolutionize virtually every field it touches. While we’re not there yet, we’re reminded every once in a while of the tremendous potential that nanotechnology holds, especially when it comes to medicine.

One of these reminders came today in the form of report that described a breakthrough in which tiny implantable capsules were embedded with genetic instructions for producing drug-building proteins. The technique could eventually result in mechanisms to synthesize and deliver drugs inside your body.

These “nanofactories” mimic the protein-making processes found in living cells — the same kind of proteins that are found in a number of medicines. But these medicines would be highly customized, in order to take advantage of the latest that science has to offer — and to deliver them to the body in an unprecedented way.

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