where can i find nanotechnology books or short stories?
Question by mattster: where can i find nanotechnology books or short stories?
I have been a vivid fan of nanotechnology and the possibilties it can bring in the future and love the books eg engines of creation, the age of spiritual machines and the singularity is near by ray kurzweil but surely there must be more sci fi stories floating around on the net. The nanotech revolution is one great story i found online a few years ago, was a great read, would muchly appreciate ideas of where i can find more books or stories about the subject.
Also the book prey by michael crichton was supposed to be made into a movie, I wonder whatever happened with that ?
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Answer by natelipkowitz
i thought bruce sterling’s “the artificial kid” was pretty good.
EDIT: oh, also i thought of this one, which is even better: neal stephenson’s “the diamond age”.
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Question by laptoprabbit: How does Nanotechnology or Drugs in General find specific Target Areas?
I’m wondering, for example, you take medicine for a painful kidney (this is just for instance). How does the medicine know exactly where to go? Let’s take this a step further and pretend we are dealing with nanotechnology. How would the nanos (basically, really small particles) know where to deposit the drugs to the kidney? Is there some sort of chemical reaction going on, and if so, how and what? Thanks, and please tell me the source. 
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Answer by Mapleaf11
There are certain biological formations that can help deliver drugs or genetic materials to cells–liposomes, for instance, have medicine or genetic material encapsulated in them, and they can either be absorbed into a cell or join with the cell membrane to release their cargo. Also, dendrimers are tree-like protein polymer structures that form “pockets” within them, and the medicine or genetic material is deposited into the pockets and delivered directly to the tumor or organ that needs them. These treatments are specifically targeted at the necessary cells, similar to radiation or chemotherapy in cancer treatment. They would be injected or delivered directly to the site. I would say that a source to start with would be the book we used as our beginning textbook in my nano program. It includes many other sources for continuing research into the subject.
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