NMANews2014.11.27---Google X建立纳米平台检测癌症和心脏发作

NMANews2014.11.27---Google X建立纳米平台检测癌症和心脏发作
發佈日期：2014年11月27日
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Google is designing a technology that uses a wrist-worn sensor and magnetic nanoparticles to detect cancer in its early stages and prevent heart attacks and other diseases. Known as the “Nanoparticle Platform,” the project was introduced by Andrew Conrad, the head of life sciences at the company’s Google X research lab, on Tuesday morning at a conference in Southern California. According to Wired, the project is part of Google’s efforts to improve healthcare through new technologies. The swallowable pill Google is developing would contain nanoparticles that, once inserted into the patient’s bloodstream, would be able to bind to cancerous cells or to a fragment of cancerous DNA. The nanoparticles could also detect fatty plaque inside blood vessels that is on the verge of breaking free and causing heart attacks or strokes. The nanoparticles would have a magnetic core that the wrist-worn sensor would use to retrieve them for analysis one or more times a day. By constantly monitoring a patient’s blood, the detection of cancer, impending heart attacks and other diseases could be made long before the appearance of any physical symptoms. Wired quoted Conrad as saying that nanoparticles have already been used in the past, are safe and would be easily expelled from the body through urine. Google did not say when the technology will be available in the market.
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谷歌正在设计一个使用腕戴传感器和磁性纳米粒子查出癌症在早期阶段，防止心脏发作等疾病的技术。 被称为“纳米平台，”该项目是由安德鲁·康拉德，生命科学的头在公司的谷歌X实验室的研究，在周二上午在南加州的会议介绍。 据有线，该项目是谷歌的努力，以提高通过新技术的医疗保健的一部分。 该吞服药丸谷歌正在开发将包含纳米颗粒，一旦插入到患者的血液中，将能够结合至癌细胞或癌性的DNA的片段。 纳米粒子还可以检测脂肪斑块在血管里面是打破免费的，导致心脏发作或中风的边缘。 纳米颗粒将有一个磁芯，该腕戴式传感器将使用以检索它们进行分析，每天一次或多次。通过不断地监测病人的血液，癌症的检测，即将心脏发作等疾病的任何身体不适症状出现之前可以作出长。 的有线引述康拉德的话说，纳米颗粒已经在过去使用，是安全的，并会容易地从体内通过尿液排出。 谷歌没有透露该技术将在市场上