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Episode: The Future of Medicine: using platelet-derived nanomedicine w/ Dr. Salaheldin Halasa
Description: Nanomedicine, an offshoot of nanotechnology, refers to highly specific medical intervention at the molecular scale for curing disease. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, too small to be seen with a conventional lab microscope. NanoMedicine technology inspired by platelet-derived microparticles (PMPs). PMPs, originally reported by Wolf in the 1960s as ‘platelet dust’, these membrane fragments shed from activated platelets. The advantage of this type of delivery system is that are no detrimental side effects and the practitioners have the ability of a hyper-targeting system to get the drugs exactly where it is needed.This type of technology coul...