人人都準備裝在疫苗中的納米微型晶片？

Are Populations Being Primed For Nano-Microhips in

Vaccines?

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It's almost surreal, like something out of a sci-fi flick, but

nano-microchips invisible to the naked eye are a reality that

are already being hosted in wide-range of applications. The

question is, how long will it take governments and big pharma

to immerse nano-microchips inside of vaccines to tag and

surveil global populations?
納米微型晶片難以以肉眼看見，已廣泛使用，問題是還需多久

政府和大型製藥，會浸納米微型晶片在疫苗內去標籤和偵察全

球人口？
Nanotechnology deals with structures smaller than one

micrometer (less than 1/30th the width of a human hair),

and involves developing materials or devices within that size.

To put the size of a nanometer in perspective, it is 100,000

times smaller than the width of a human hair.
十萬倍小過一條人髮的闊度。
More than ten years ago, simple low-cost techniques

improved the design and manufacture of nano-microchips.

That unlocked a multitude of methodologies for their

manufacture in a wide-range of applications including optical,

biological, and electronic devices.

The joint use of nanoelectronics, photolithography, and new

biomaterials, have enabled the required manufacturing

technology towards nanorobots for common medical

applications, such as surgical instrumentation, diagnosis and

drug delivery.
納米電子，平版印刷法和新的生物材料的聯合使用，使所需的

納米機器人製造技術實現，應用於一般的醫療用途，如手術儀

器，診斷和藥物輸送。
Japan's Hitachi says it has developed the world's smallest

and thinnest microchip, that can be embedded in paper to

track down parcels or prove the authenticity of a document.

The integrated circuit (IC) chip is as minute as a speck of

dust.
日本日立表示已經發展出世界上最小和最薄的微型晶片，可嵌

入到紙張中追查包裹，或證明文件的真實性。集成電路（IC）

晶片是微小如塵埃的斑點。
Nanoelectrodes implanted in the brain are increasingly being

used to manage neurological disorders. Mohammad Reza

Abidian, a post-doctoral researcher at the U-M Department of

Biomedical Engineering said that polymers in nanotubes "are

biocompatible and have both electronic and ionic

conductivity." He further stated "therefore, these materials

are good candidates for biomedical applications such as

neural interfaces, biosensors and drug delivery systems."
納米電極被植入大腦中是越來越多地使用來管理神經紊亂。
Depending on the objectives of such studies, research could

theoretically pave the way for smart recording electrodes

that can deliver drugs to positively or negatively affect the

immune response.

Through nanotechnology, researchers have also been able to

create artificial pores able to transmit nanoscale materials

through membranes.

A UC biomedical engineering study appearing in the journal

Nature Nanotechnology, Sept. 27, 2009, successfully

inserted the modified core of a nanomotor, a microscopic

biological machine, into a lipid membrane. The resulting

channel enabled them to move both single- and double-

stranded DNA through the membrane.

Professor Peixuan Guo who led the study said past work with

biological channels has been focused on channels large

enough to move only single-stranded genetic material.

"Since the genomic DNA of human, animals, plants, fungus

and bacteria are double stranded, the development of single

pore system that can sequence double-stranded DNA is very

important," he says.

Such engineered channels could have applications in nano-

sensing, DNA sequencing, drug loading, including innovative

techniques to implement DNA packaging mechanisms of viral

nanomotors and vaccine delivery.

"The idea that a DNA molecule travels through the nanopore,

advancing nucleotide by nucleotide, could lead to the

development of a single pore DNA sequencing apparatus, an

area of strong national interest," Guo said.

Scientists working at Queen Mary, University of London, have

developed micrometer-sized capsules to safely deliver drugs

inside living cells. These "micro shuttles" could hypothetically

be loaded with a specific microchip controlling the dose of

medication to be opened remotely, releasing their contents.

Besides monitoring the dosage, the same microchip could be

used to surveil the patient in conjunction with various

tracking systems.

Scientists in the United Kingdom have recently reported

advances towards overcoming key challenges in

nanotechnology. They demonstrated how nanoparticles could

move quickly in a desired direction without help from outside

forces. Their achievement has broad implications, the

scientists say, raising the possibility of coaxing cells to move

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