A healthy body can defend itself against most invading organisms that can cause infection or disease.

There are two types of defense: Innate and Adaptive. Innate defenses include mechanical barriers like skin and chemical defenses like the antibacterial enzyme of tears. The Adaptive system is based on specialized white blood cells, called leukocytes, which act upon the invasion of the body by microorganisms. The “B” cells produce chemicals called antibodies that circulate in the blood and attack specific organisms that cause diseases, playing a very important role in our immune system; “T” cells directly attack organisms. Both types of cells retain a memory of previous infections and respond quickly to later ones.

Within the technological advances of medicine we find artificial or plastic antibodies. Given its importance, a group of researchers from Japan and the United States, managed to develop artificial antibodies, based on plastic of microscopic size. These were introduced to mice, obtaining famous results.

These and other innovations are now possible in Pharmamedic.