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Bionanotechnology and Bionanoscience of Artificial Bioassemblies

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Bionanotechnology is now creating an entire class of new devices that will improve and augment existing approaches to biology and medicine. Information from physics, chemistry, and molecular biology is being used to reassemble biological and nonbiological molecules into useful and informative devices. These artificial bioassemblies are generally built on nanoscale scaffolds. This flexible construction principle allows them to serve as models of cellular assemblies, models of possible intermediates in molecular evolution, reporters for studying intracellular dynamics, and tools for detecting and tagging different cell types, including cancer cells. This chapter assesses recent progress in this area.

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Smith, S.S., Lamparska-Kupsik, K. (2008). Bionanotechnology and Bionanoscience of Artificial Bioassemblies. In: Shoseyov, O., Levy, I. (eds) NanoBioTechnology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-218-2_3

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