Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 20-31, March 2007

The present and future of nanotechnology in human health care

  • S.K. Sahoo, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute of Life Sciences, Nanomedicine Laboratory, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.
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  • S. Parveen, MS
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  • J.J. Panda, MS

Institute of Life Sciences, Nanomedicine Laboratory, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Received 3 March 2006; received in revised form 4 October 2006; accepted 21 November 2006.

Abstract 

Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that covers a vast and diverse array of devices derived from engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology. The burgeoning new field of nanotechnology, opened up by rapid advances in science and technology, creates myriad new opportunities for advancing medical science and disease treatment in human health care. Applications of nanotechnology to medicine and physiology imply materials and devices designed to interact with the body at subcellular (i.e., molecular) scales with a high degree of specificity. This can be potentially translated into targeted cellular and tissue-specific clinical applications designed to achieve maximal therapeutic efficacy with minimal side effects. In this review the chief scientific and technical aspects of nanotechnology are introduced, and some of its potential clinical applications are discussed.

Key words: Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine, Drug delivery, Nanodiagnostic, Molecular imaging

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 No conflict of interest was reported by the authors of this paper.

PII: S1549-9634(06)00342-X

doi:10.1016/j.nano.2006.11.008

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 20-31, March 2007

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