Question by Fernando H: How does nanotechnology handle cell adhesion molecules?
I´m doing a little project and I´m looking for information about how nanotechnology handles cell adhesion molecules.

I´ve been looking around the web and so far I´ve found no information on the subject, so you could add to my question: Does technology to handle cell adhesion molecules exist, for instance, an artificial surface covered in adhesion molecules that would allow cell-to-surface contact?

I put this into the engineering category, although this would also fit into the biology category.

Best answer:

Answer by Bert K
A great question, probably with detailed information only kept in research companies as proprietary.

One decent on-line paper is by the New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9939

It contains lots of interesting links which may give you research folks to contact directly.

There is doubtless good information which researchers would share with you that is not proprietary. e.g., carbon nanotubes, of an allotrope graphene, is made in sheets one or two atoms thick and then rolled into wire-like tubes which are just nanometers in diameter. and has better thermal conduction characteristics than copper. When properly deposited on appropriate heat-generating/heat-sensitive components these nanotubes are better heat sinks than if metal could be used, and in many cases it can’t. This is used to improve high frequency heat shock stress on semiconductors, at least this is in on-going research, and must have dealt with the problem of interfacing with artificial surfaces and adhesion molecules.

I think MIT has been doing research on this, and if you don’t find a more informative industrial source of data, I suggest you contact their radiation laboratory.

hth

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