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Covid-19 and Picotechnology: Potential Opportunities Publisher Pubmed



Rabiee N1 ; Rabiee M2 ; Bagherzadeh M1 ; Rezaei N3, 4, 5
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  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Biomaterial Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Research Center for Immunodefiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  5. 5. Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

Source: Medical Hypotheses Published:2020


Abstract

Humanity's challenges are becoming increasingly difficult, and as these challenges become more advanced, the need for effective and intelligent action becomes more apparent. Meanwhile, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which has plagued the world, could be considered as an opportunity to take a step toward the need for atomic engineering, compared to molecular engineering, as well as to accelerate this type of research. This approach, which can be expressed in terms of picotechnology, makes it possible to identify living cell types or in general, chemical and biological surfaces using their atomic arrays, and applied for early diagnosis even treatment of the disease. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd