Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 3 , Pages 409-418 , June 2010

Cellular prostheses: functional abiotic nanosystems to probe, manipulate, and endow function in live cells

  • Siyuan Lu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • ,
  • Anupam Madhukar, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Material Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: 3651 Watt Way, VHE 502, Los Angeles, California 90089-0241, USA.

Received 30 November 2009 ,Accepted 23 January 2010.

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 Funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Air Force Office of Scientific Research–funded Defense University Research Initiative in Nanotechnology (DURINT) program grant no. F49620-01-1-0474.

PII: S1549-9634(10)00011-0

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2010.01.004

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 3 , Pages 409-418 , June 2010

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