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Medicine at the Nano Scale
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of microRNA, the 2023 prize for pioneering mRNA vaccines, the 2020 prize for making precise genome editing possible using CRISPR-Cas9, and the 2006 prize for the discovery of RNA interference. These discoveries revolutionized modern medicine and opened a new avenue for treating diseases by correcting errors at the gene level. But do you know what is the common theme between these 4 disruptive technologies??? The answer is that the application of these breakthrough technologies in human health is only possible with the use of nanotechnology. Nanomedicine, or the use of nanotechnology to treat or diagnose diseases, is a multidisciplinary science that combines engineering, chemistry, and biomedical concepts all together. In this seminar, Dr Saed Abbasi talked about the pivotal role nanomedicine has played in enabling RNA drugs and vaccines for human use. https://bugssonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Nanoparticles-seminar.mp4 Our speaker Saed Abbasi is a research scientist at the Johns Hopkins Univers