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Bionanotechnology in Medicine

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It should be recalled that the creation, control, and use of nano-scale structures, devices, and systems is the domain of nanotechnology and bionanotechnology deals with the diagnostic, therapeutic, and clinical applications of nanotechnology in biomedical, bioscience, and any subunit of health care for that matter. A key stage in health care is diagnosis as timely diagnosis can lead to the higher effectiveness of disease treatment, thus giving more positive outcomes and curtailed total costs. New technologies are necessary to speed the diagnostic processes and help the clinicians and scientists in the initiation of targeted treatments and in the monitoring of treatment responses. An important objective of medicine now is to exploit initial accomplishments and combining them with available technologies to identify the earliest signatures of fatal conditions, allowing us to provide immediate and specific interventions and monitor the condition progresses before chronic inflammation and malignancy happen. The improvement of diagnostic technologies can be supported by bionanotechnology, as a result of unique mechanical, chemical, electrical, and optical properties at nano-scale. Immediate benefits to the users can be presented by the development and use of tools in diagnostic field. The technologies of 1–100 nm size can assist in sensing or visualizing interactions with receptors, specific organelles, cytoskeletons, and nuclear components within the cells. They are expected to be able to migrate into monitoring the health condition by means of non-invasive methods in vivo. The growth in nanotechnology assists us in differentiating between abnormal and normal cells and detecting and quantifying minor amounts of signature molecules produced by the cells [1].

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Lee, YC., Moon, JY. (2020). Bionanotechnology in Medicine. In: Introduction to Bionanotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1293-3_8

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