Covid-19 and Picotechnology: Potential Opportunities Publisher Pubmed



Rabiee N¹ ; Rabiee M² ; Bagherzadeh M¹ ; Rezaei N^{3, 4, 5}
Source: Medical Hypotheses Published:2020

Abstract

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