ABSTRACT
The field of nanotechnology involves an array of different areas of expertize with the application of innovative products in Medicine, Engineering, and to a less extent to Veterinary Medicine. In our opinion, more research is needed, in special to Animal Parasitology, to develop state of the art products to solve old problems. Livestock, pets and wildlife may benefit from products in nanoscale, such as vaccines, target recombinant proteins, or new drug candidates. Thus, we want to give some food for thought to drive scientific programs into nanotechnology, creating a safer environment to animals and humans...
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Animals , Nanotechnology/history , Nanotechnology/trends , Parasitology/trends , Leishmania/parasitology , Plasmodium/parasitologyABSTRACT
Traça um padrão de relacionamento entre nanociências, saúde e biologia para estabelecer um panorama histórico no campo das nanociências. Utilizou-se o banco de dados Web of Science, com levantamento inicial pelas palavras-chave nanoscience e nanotechnology e também de palavras relacionadas a biologia e saúde. A aplicação do programa Citespace permitiu visualizar o padrão de relacionamento entre os tópicos lançados na base de pesquisa, proporcionando identificação de momentos de explosão e de ruptura do tema. Os dados obtidos mostram que a relação entre essas áreas emerge a partir de 2006, estando a maioria relacionada a nanomedicina. Trabalhos sobre nanotoxicologia também aparecem de forma significativa, uma vez que essas duas áreas necessitam caminhar juntas.
The article traces a pattern of relationships between nanosciences, health, and biology to provide a historical overview of the nanoscience field. Input data came from the Web of Science databank, through a search first based on the keywords ‘nanoscience' and ‘nanotechnology' and also the selection of words related to biology and health. Application of the Citespace program made it possible to visualize the pattern of relationships between topics in the research base, allowing identification of burst and centrality points on the subject. Data findings show that the relationship between these areas emerged in 2006, most of them related to nanomedicine. There are also a significant number of works on nanotoxicology, since these two areas necessarily come hand in hand.
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Science , Biology , Health , Nanotechnology/history , SoftwareABSTRACT
La medicina y la ciencia han avanzado juntas a lo largo de la historia. Con el comienzo de este siglo se han comenzado a obtener resultados relevantes en las aplicaciones de la nanotecnología en la medicina. La medicina se presenta como un mercado potencial del mundo nano con aplicaciones tan revolucionarias que podrían lograr incluso la cura del cáncer, tratar las enfermedades según las características específicas de los pacientes y lograr una mejoría más que sustancial del modo de vida de la población. Cuba no está ajena a esta realidad y para ello confía en el gran potencial científico que ha formado en estos años de Revolución y en los convenios que mantiene con diferentes países en aras de garantizar el dominio de esta nueva tecnología. En este artículo se aborda la escala de trabajo de las nanotecnologías, además de brindar la definición propuesta para este término por las instituciones líderes en este campo. Se brinda información de las diferentes áreas que comprende la nanomedicina y se ofrece una breve panorámica de la nanomedicina a nivel mundial y en Cuba, y sus posibles implicaciones negativas
Medicine and science have been walking together through human history. With the beginning of the century, many important scientific results have emerged in nanotechnology applied to medicine. Medicine is a potential market of nano world, with revolutionary implications that could bring, i.e. the cure of cancer, or the treatment of different diseases according to the specific characteristics of each patient, achieving a substantially better quality of life of the citizens. Cuba has a great opportunity in this new area due to its scientific potential in biomedical applications and its exchange with different countries to guarantee the domain of this new technology. This article addresses the working scale of nanotechnology, as well as provides the proposed definition of this term by the leading institutions in this field. It also provides information on the different areas comprising nanomedicine and gives a brief overview of nanomedicine worldwide and in Cuba, and its possible negative implications