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Nanotechnology: A Trojan Horse for Green Health Revolution
Dr Alibha Rawat || 83
Email: bnandini2010@gmail.com
Dr Nandini B.*
Abiological solution for biological problems is a new paradigm in science. Nature has both disease-inducing and disease-preventive incentives. Science is the bridge between nature and disease to examine the biological problems arising in nature and come up with solutions for the same. Any particle has its own power to bring about changes in the environment. When we go with the disease protection concept, we always look forward for an agent or an elicitor with a significant activity at a minor concentration. In this point of view, nanoformulation is one of the most significant approaches.Nanotechnology includes diverse fields of science with the manipulation of material at atomic and molecular levels. A scientific venture of nanotechnology provides us with huge benefits in all the areas, and it is also
important to move forward with a responsibility to make use of the nanotechnology wisely. The vision of nanotechnology was initiated in 1959 by Richard Feynman in his visionary talk, There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom, wherein he illustrated the possible manipulation of atoms. Presently, the branch of that vision has been recognized now; but still, it remains indistinct to know the possible extent of manipulations at the atomic level.
Our surrounding environment in our daily life activities is completely covered with very small tiny particles; we feel them as dust particles and they sometimes act as infectious agents, as we suffer from it. Nanotechnology has a tremendous impact on transforming a pathogenic form into a nonpathogenic, environmental-friendly sustainable form. This
* Dr Nandini B., Post Doctoral Fellow from CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, is pursuing her research on “Investigations on Signal Molecules Responsible for Host Susceptibility to Thrips (Thysanoptera) Infestations in Capsicum Species and its Effect on Carotenoids Content of Fruits and Capsaicin Production”. Her popular science story entitled “Nanotechnology: A Trojan Horse for Green Health Revolution” has been selected for AWSAR Award.