Nanotechnology Will Defeat SARS, Author Says

By the end of this decade, advancements in molecular nanotechnology will enable humanity to render SARS and other infectious diseases impotent according to Britt Gillette, nanotechnology advocate and author of Conquest of Paradise. The key to this breakthrough technology will be a revolutionary atom-stacking device known as an "assembler".

Chesapeake, VA (PRWEB) April 29, 2003 -- Molecular nanotechnology (MNT) is the key to defeating SARS and other infectious diseases according to Britt Gillette, nanotechnology advocate and author of Conquest of Paradise: An End-Times Nano-Thriller.

The revolutionary technology remains in its early stages, but in recent years, governments around the world have steadily increased R&D to the tune of several billion dollars annually. And when those investments pay off Gillette says, MNT will result in humans gaining precise control of matter at the atomic level. The cornerstone of this monumental breakthrough will be an "assembler", a device able to manipulate molecules, the most basic building blocks of the physical world.

"The ascendance of MNT will allow us to construct any object not specifically disallowed by the laws of physics," Gillette says. And the creation of a device capable of processing matter the way a computer processes information would herald far-reaching advances in almost every field of human endeavor -- from warfare to space travel to the ongoing wars against hunger and poverty. For the field of medicine, the creation of an assembler may very well mean an end to disease itself.

"Once we are able to break and create chemical bonds at will, we will be able to build most anything we wish, but well also be able to deconstruct any object as well," Gillette says. "And that includes the SARS virus."

Gillette believes MNT will lead to the creation of tiny machines operating at the molecular level. Such machines could be injected into the bloodstream where they would be capable of identifying foreign viruses and bacteria. The machines would then break the chemical bonds of the invading germs, slowly dissolving them back into the body.

Such a method of treatment is far more efficient than todays vaccines and antibiotics, which only target limited strains of virus and bacteria. Gillette points out that MNT will be particularly valuable in the fight against SARS and other mutating viruses because of its unique ability to create agents with the means to recognize and disable such diseases in whatever forms they may occur.

But are such visions realistic, or merely science fiction? "We already have such machines working in our bloodstream," Gillette says. "Theyre called antibodies and white blood cells. MNT will simply enable us to create much more effective ones."

Just as we now have "smart bombs" in our military arsenal, by the end of the decade, we will have "smart medicines" he says. With the current fear over the SARS epidemic reaching worldwide proportions, that day cannot come soon enough.

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Contact: Britt Gillette; United States (757) 483-6170