Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine and Nanosurgery

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KurzweilAI.net, Jan. 10, 2006

Nanomedicine pioneer A. Freitas Jr. has written a landmark

paper on nanosurgery in a peer-reviewed medical journal

( " Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine and Nanosurgery, " Intl. J. Surgery 3,

December 2005:1-4).

Freitas describes current state-of-the-art surgery using a

micropipette to completely cut dendrites from single neurons without

damaging cell viability, localized nanosurgical ablation of focal

adhesions adjoining live mammalian epithelial cells, microtubule

dissection inside yeast cells, and even nanosurgery of individual

chromosomes.

He forecasts that surgical nanorobots will " find and eliminate

isolated cancerous cells, perform 'noninvasive' tissue and organ

transplants, conduct molecular repairs on traumatized extracellular

and intracellular structures, and even exchange new whole chromosomes

for old ones inside individual living human cells. "

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Intl. J. Surgery 3, December 2005:1-4).