To make room for more, it was essentially a radical step to reduce the entire technology to nano dimensions. Imagine of a world where one can carry an entire laboratory in one’s palm and perform one’s own blood tests with those miniature apparatus!! A world where diagnosis of a malignancy call for a mere gulp of a tablet!! Sounds like a fairy tale??? NO!! This is what technology has kept in store for future. Nanotechnology promises us a life made so easy with those miniature magical bullets branded as bio-sensors. Sensors find a place in almost all facets of life, let alone, health.
Integrated multifunctional sensors in automobiles take care of the health and habits of the vehicles. Applications of these sensors are vast ranging from detection of a bomb in a crowd to a potential mine of gold.
Medicine is where the technology now focuses by and large, with most dreaded diseases in the lime light. One such sensor, say, Micro Electro Chemical Cell Platform is projected to sense glycated hemoglobin, as seen in diabetics, and to modulate treatment. Drug delivery system is the most awaited improvisation by doctors. They dream of tiny “smart- bombs” and “nano bullets” that can travel throughout the body in search of tumors and specifically blast off just the tumor cells.
