40 nm nanoparticles penetrate under skin

simulus

14th June 2006 - 09:02 AM

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...7&dopt=Abstract

guiding_light

19th June 2006 - 03:49 AM

Many viruses are smaller than this. Is this a new threat?

wyldfyre0690

8th July 2006 - 05:58 AM

40nm is the smallest ive known so far..

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isulong seoph

Guest

10th July 2006 - 05:02 AM

Currently I've the common cold virus. That's supposedly one of the smallest ones...

Nanoparticles do make you sick.

Your fellow human (yfh)

4th August 2006 - 11:55 PM

Prevention is the only cure.

simulus

26th August 2006 - 07:10 AM

QUOTE

Currently I've the common cold virus. That's supposedly one of the smallest ones...

Nanoparticles do make you sick.

I hadn't checked back here in a while, but this is an interesting perspective. Does the human body respond same to nanoparticles as to, say, a virus? I'd guess so, but obviously an experiment attempting to "infect" someone with a nanoparticle would not be popularly considered.

simulus

27th September 2006 - 02:29 PM

It dawned upon me the other day that viruses are just self-replicating nanoparticles. That is the source of their damage. Other than them, the main worry about nanoparticles should be just their toxicity, I think.

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