Nasa has patented a carbon nanotube capsule that is implanted under the skin of the astronaut in a simple (requiring only local anesthesia) and the constant monitoring can be bearer general demand and releasing the active ingredients required to treat you.
All this without the astronaut even realize what goes on inside this "biocápsule".
Applications of this great invention are huge, even down here on Earth.
Some cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy, for example, are treated with a hormone called G-CSF.
The acronym of this hormone (which come from the Colony Stimulating Factor, Granulocyte) are synonymous with powerful remedy against infection.
The biocápsulas could well deal with G-CSF release that patients need without having to go to clinics to receive him "uncomfortable" shot.
One of the interesting features of carbon nanotubes are capsules that are made in addition to its strength and durability (not expired), is that they are inert, that is tolerated by the body naturally without the immune system the attack.
Moreover, its porosity, allows the active ingredients penetrate locked inside the walls to be smoothly distributed throughout the body via the bloodstream.
Here on Earth, one of the most promising fields of action for biocápsulas is the dosage of insulin to diabetes patients.
Could be implanted capsules are filled with animal pancreatic cells (10 million for a patient with a severity of medium), and supplement them with some kind of sensor blood sugar levels.
Given that diabetes patients spend at least one third of the day sleeping (when they can not monitor their blood glucose levels and insulin supplied) to the risk that this entails, the biocápsulas could be the perfect solution for diabetics could "forget" to check its status.
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