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Life is an assemblage of several nanoscale mechanisms. The human body is made up of almost 5,000 billion cells, which unites to form tissue, organ, organ system, but each of them follow specific nanoscale processes in order to generate and drive life. In most of the eukaryotic cells, the basic unit of genetic information is the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid), which falls under nanometric regime (~2.5 nm). The exploration of life in our mother earth reveals that biology starts with the establishment of nanoscale materials and mechanisms. Nanoscience is the branch of science in which size matters. It is a multidisciplinary field where a wide range of applications such as using bionanomaterials in engineering or engineered nanomaterials in biology and medicine are studied with diverse viewpoints. This chapter aims to offer an overview about what nanobiology is and how it is facilitating and impacting on the current developments and trends in medicine.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy

    Hariprasad Thangavel

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  1. Centre for Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    Yi Ge

  2. School of Materials Science & Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

    Songjun Li

  3. Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Centre, College of Life Science and Technology, Huanzhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Shenqi Wang

  4. Biomimesis, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Richard Moore

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Thangavel, H. (2014). Nanobiology in Medicine. In: Ge, Y., Li, S., Wang, S., Moore, R. (eds) Nanomedicine. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2140-5_2

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