Once unreal and futuristic operating discoveries of Czech scientists are working on . Research on so-called nanotechnology , through which the body restores the damaged tissue with its own forces , will undoubtedly go down in history .

The principle of the work of Czech scientists who are developing nanotechnology laboratory is to replace what the body itself can not , for example, start and regenerative processes , where the organism itself can handle very difficult or even at all.

Examples of these technologies is a European project to regenerate the heart after a heart attack . After the attack on the heart muscle remains solid scars that have not downloaded because it is formed by connective tissue cells . Researchers have in place to restore damaged heart muscle cells. Nanofibers are a kind of scaffold and cells are conditions for growth.

“In the laboratory, we can , under certain circumstances to force the cell to do what the body can not. But the point is to create tissues and cells here have a place nanofibers , which are suitable for the production of cell mass , “said Eugene Amler , head tissue Engineering Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences . Now his team is developing this method involved. ” But it will take many years before these methods will cure the first patient , ” he says Associate Professor carefully Amler .

Stops and cancer ?

The application of nanotechnology is much broader. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis even discovered a way to use nanotechnology to prevent tumor growth and cure the cancer. A special ” nanodopravníkem ” have managed to get a strong tumor antibiotic , which stopped the formation of new blood vessels ( essentially the tumor needs to grow ), while further damage the tissue. While this treatment in the research phase .

Nanotechnology may help in the future, patients suffering from atherosclerosis , or hardening of the arteries . Americans have developed a special nanoparticles , which reach the body , to transport the drugs to the sediment , which released in the blood vessels . Currently, the clogged artery can be passable again by surgery , which results in the affected area introduces the so-called a stent (thin metal tube) and expands the blood vessel . Unfortunately often occurs after the introduction of unwanted growth of vascular cells and blood vessel becomes blocked again . nanoparticles can do to prevent It . In the foreseeable future, it perhaps could replace current methods of treatment .