My blogging experience

Personally, it is hard for me to write about me, sometimes it isn't simple to find my likes and dislikes, however it was a good experience to write this blog because it made me think about things that we usually don't consider, like our favorites books or the microscopic world, and it allowed us know a little about our classmates too. Also, I think that this was an interesting way to learn english using technology and tools like this page where we could write our own blog, this things facilitate the learning.

My writing skills have developed a lot after this blog because when I didn't remember some word or expresion, I had to search them, and doing that made me learn the things I searched,

In the future I would like to include musical tastes maybe, I could write a lot about that and I think my classmates too, because we are listening to music practically all day, in our trips to university or our free time, and there are many different styles so it could be an interesting topic to write about.

From the invisible to the visible world and back

Nanotechnology is the area that studies matter in dimensions between 1 and 100 nanometers. On this measurements materials show other features and applications, in addition to which are known. In other words, nanotechnology means engineering of complex machines, materials and circuits built atom by atom or molecule by molecule.

The importance of pharmaceutical nanotechnology for therapies with drugs resides on the possibilities to deliver drugs of low molecular weight as well as macromolecules like peptides, proteins and genes, in a localized or guided manner to certain tissue of interest.

Lately, there have been investigations about controlled drug release's nanodevices, that can be used on therapies against breast cancer.

Until now, the work has focused in cellular essays with some positive results that could open new ways to improve the efficacy of some drugs used on this therapies.

The principal novelty of this nanodevices is that the molecule that covers it not only controls when the drug is released, it controls where is released too, directing the drug to some specific cells.

I chose this technique because breast cancer is the more lethal tumor among women worldwide, then, investigations aimed at identifying new therapies or improving which are known are a field of intense activity, and as a future pharmacist is part of our work to give wellness to people.

However, it is necessary the increase of the regulations in order to assure the safety of nanoparticles, it is considered that the toxicity, epidemiology and bioacumulation of fabricated nanomaterials are so far to be studied; in spite of this, the application of nanotechnology in healthcare and for development of personalized medicine appear to be hopeful.

The most enjoyable subject thus far...

I think the most enjoyable subject thus far for me is "the pharmacist action"; I like this subject because it bring us closer to our career and what we'll do as healthcare professionals.

In classes each one of us is part of a group, and each group have four activities during the semester. I started with "pharmaceutical terminology", where we learned about basic concepts used by professionals in this area. My second activity was to visit two places where the pharmacist works, we visited "El Carmen" hospital and Fresenius Kabi, a laboratory; in my opinion it was the most interesting activity because we saw professionals in action, with pros and cons, but after this I think I love my career, even more. The third activity was prepare a debate with issues related with pharmacy, obviously! My group debated about the pharmacist's responsability in medication errors, during the preparation we had to search a lot of information and I learned about chilean rules, things that I didn't know. Now we're in the last activity, where professionals of this university that work in dfferent areas talk to us about their experiences and the workplace for pharmacists.

In the teaching activities there are teachers and coordinators, because this is a new subject in the carreer as I know, and we are approximately 30 students in class, a good number of people for a good class.

Expert you admire

Nikola Tesla was an inventor, physicist and electrical, mechanical engineer who made a great contribution to the field of technology with his design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

He was born on July 10th, 1856 in Smiljan, modern-day Croatia, where he lived until 1884 when he emigrated to United States (where he died on 1943) to work for Thomas Edison. There were differences between Edison and Tesla; while the first was introducer and defender of the direct current (DC), and made a fortune with this idea, Tesla was convinced that the alternating current (AC) was a better solution, and his objective was get free, wireless energy for everyone. Actually, we still use AC in our time, 150 years later, because it imposed above direct current. In fact, what Tesla thought was better, but he needed Edison to implement his idea. 

Edison denied his support, but asked Tesla if he could redesign and improve the inefficient DC generators of his company, offering him a big amount of money. Tesla did it, but Edison never paid; after that Tesla gave up and founded his own company in 1886: "Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing". He didn't convinced the investors so he started to work with George Westinghouse, at the same time he built his famous "Tesla coil".

He made a lot of discoveries, he was a fascinating character that is worth knowing, but after reading about him, I think the history and people like Thomas Edison were very unfair with him, he never received the recognition he deserved for all his achievements and his exceptional mind.