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COVID-19 and picotechnology: Potential opportunities

Rabiee, N ; Sharif University of Technology | 2020

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109917
  3. Publisher: Churchill Livingstone , 2020
  4. Abstract:
  5. 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
  6. Keywords:
  7. COVID-19 ; Nanotechnology ; Picotechnology ; Science ; Cell surface protein ; Matrix protein ; Virus envelope protein ; Cell function ; Cell membrane ; Chemical structure ; Coronavirus disease 2019 ; Crystallography ; Early diagnosis ; Gene sequence ; Letter ; Nanocatalyst ; Picotechnology ; Prediction ; Protein interaction ; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
  8. Source: Medical Hypotheses ; Volume 144 , 2020
  9. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030698772031015X