Anti-HIV using Nanorobots

here is no specific technology for the treatment of AIDS. Some drugs of specific composition are given to the patients which are able to increase the life time to a few years only. To make the treatment more specific we use the new technology called Nanotechnology which has bio-medical application. The size of nanorobots is about 100 times lesser than the size of an animal cell and hence it can easily monitor the behavior of cell inside the body. Nanorobots use nano sensors to sense the AIDS infected WBCs and convert them back into original WBCs. It operates at specific sites and has no side effects. Thus the AIDS patient is provided with the immune system so that he can defend himself from AIDS.

I. INTRODUCTION

A. Nanorobots

Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the microscopic scale of nanometers (10^-9 meters).  Nanorobots would be typically devices ranging in size from 0.1-10 micrometers, they could work at atomic, molecular and cellular level. Nanorobots are to likely be constructed of carbon atoms, generally in diamond structure because of inert properties and strength, glucose (or) natural body sugars and oxygen might be source at propulsion, Nanorobots will respond to acoustic signals.

B. HIV

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Like all viruses, HIV cannot grow or reproduce on its own. In order to make new copies of itself it must infect the cells of a living organism. HIV belongs to a special class of viruses called retroviruses. Within this class, HIV is placed in the subgroup of lent viruses. Outside of a human cell, HIV exists as roughly spherical particles (sometimes called virions). The surface of each particle is studded with lots of little spikes. An HIV particle is around 100-150 billionths of a meter in diameter. That’s about the same as: 0.1 microns, one twentieth of the length of an E. coli bacterium, one seventieth of the diameter of a human CD4+ white blood cell. Unlike most bacteria, HIV particles are much too small to be seen through an ordinary microscope. However they can be seen clearly with an electron microscope as shown in (Fig.1).

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