Maggie’s Genetic engineering…..what could possibly go wrong with this🤷‍♂️

[smoooth1]

Genetically engineered nanoparticle delivers dexamethasone directly to inflamed lungs

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed immune cell-mimicking nanoparticles that target inflammation in the lungs and deliver drugs directly where they're needed. As a proof of concept, the researchers filled the nanoparticles with the drug dexamethasone and...

phys.org

 

[OldSalty2]

genetic engineering is a must...if "humans" are to get past the inherent constraints which apply to our lil rock...

but, with almost everything humans "touch", the potential for malicious or evil intent will likely present many challenges as these technologies emerge...

 

[elwarpo]

These are not live organisms. Every cell, disease, imune response... have sites wher chemicals, amino scids, cells can bind so they can do their work. All they did was create a structure that looks like what the cell wants. A cell gets inflamed from a disease, the cell has a position where imune response can latch on to help protect that cell. What we did was make a shape that looks like an imune response so the injured cell grabs it. Now the enginered shape releases drugs, fighting the inflammation. So imagine you have a lung infection, you take a drug and it doses your whole body to fight that infection and have side effects. Now we can give you a drug that fight the infection at the affected cells only. I call it great science.