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Microchip Technology As humans evolve so do diseases and therefore technology must evolve also. Cancer, hormone deficiencies, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes are becoming more and more common in the human population and medical technology must evolve with them. Geneticists estimate that there are 2,000 to 5,000 genes that either cause or predispose humans to various diseases. In the past 3 decades the number and variety of controlled release systems for drug deliver applications has increased dramatically. So I would like to discuss a topic that has been in the news lately and that is Microchips used in medical advances. On CNN last Thursday they were talking about the latest news on the most advanced Microchip in which the information was just released in the journal Nature materials. The idea behind the microchip is that patients will have a therapy made so small that they can begin to think of having a normal life again with a yearlong automatic dose of medicine Imagine it is the year 2025 and some things haven’t changed. The sky is still blue. The Dow is poised to set another record and Jose Rodriquez (class of 2004) has just learned he has colon cancer. But he’s not too concerned. Thanks to the genetic revolution that swept over the pharmaceutical industry 20 years earlier. - That was written by Christine Gorman in her article thanks to genetics the pharmaceutical industry is exploding with new ideas. Overview The first of its kind microchip was invented by the professor Robert Langer and his grad student John Santini.
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