The Harmful Effects Of Nanoparticles On The Human Body

When my grandmother suffered from respiratory disease, her heart failed miserably. Her heart failure caused me to become interested in engineering. For a long time, I did not understand why she died. I only knew she died from cigarettes, which is something that is not very clear to understand as a 6 year old. However, I was still heartbroken about the fact she was gone forever. I was even more heart broken that I never got the chance to tell her I love her. As I got older, I understood more about the functions of the heart. Heart failure is a severe failure of the heart to function properly, especially as a cause of death. Some causes are damages to the heart muscle from causes other than artery or blood flow problems, such as from infections …show more content…
The use of these nanoparticles will overshadow the harmful effects because they detect proteins, create fluorescent biological labels for important biological markers and molecules in research and diagnosis of diseases, isolate and purify biological molecules and cells in research. Most importantly, nanoparticles are used for gene delivery systems in gene therapy, which is the key factor for personalized medicine. These nanoparticles will cause a life time change in the field of medicine for doctors, biomedical engineers, clinicians and many others who work within this industry. Now, people will be able to be treated with a medication that targets their genetic material. By doing this, the health care system will evolve into a place where cancer can be curable. Treatments such as chemotherapy won’t have to be done any more once personalized medicine is in full affect. Since chemotherapy kills off the healthy cells in the human body, personalized medicine can target only the infected cells. Nanoparticles can be used as a smaller alternative besides radiation therapy to treat cancer cells for those who have special circumstances in their genetic makeup. The nanoparticles degrade and release the drug to the target cancer stem cells. They then attack the cancer stem cells better than the radiation therapy because it’s a safer way to shrink the cells. A lot of research and clinical trials …show more content…
They have been used over the years for various functions in the health care system. I wish I would have known the powerful affects nanoparticles could have had on my grandmother when I was younger. Thinking back, nanoparticles would have probably saved her life. A recent study showed that nanoparticles may be useful for delivering therapeutic agents specifically to an infarcted heart, which is what my grandmother had. These targeted nanoparticles would provide an attractive approach to circulate in the body for long periods of time and only bind to the desired organs. A Nano particulate system, which targets cardiac cells, could possibly be used to prevent my grandmother’s heart failure after she stopped her smoking to save her life. They achieve their goal at targeting the injured parts of the heart, not the healthy parts of it, which could improve her entire heart overtime with a couple weeks of treatment and physical activity. I wish I would have known the new systems which have contributed to personalized medicine such as nanoparticles and the two chamber tissue model system. I would have already been working on a solution to my grandmother’s heart failure rather than having her life dependent on an oxygen machine as she takes her last