Nanotechnology In Biology And Medicine: Methods...
The second edition of Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine is intended to serve as an authoritative reference source for a broad audience involved in the research, teaching, learning, and practice of nanotechnology in life sciences. This technology, which is on the scale of molecules, has enabled the development of devices smaller and more efficient than anything currently available. To understand complex biological nanosystems at the cellular level, we urgently need to develop a next-generation nanotechnology tool kit. It is believed that the new advances in genetic engineering, genomics, proteomics, medicine, and biotechnology will depend on our mastering of nanotechnology in the coming decades. The integration of nanotechnology, material sciences, molecular biology, and medicine opens the possibility of detecting and manipulating atoms and molecules using nanodevices, which have the potential for a wide variety of biological research topics and medical uses at the cellular level. This book presents the most recent scientific and technological advances of nanotechnology for use in biology and medicine. Each chapter provides introductory material with an overview of the topic of interest; a description of methods, protocols, instrumentation, and applications; and a collection of published data with an extensive list of references for further details. The goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the most recent advances in instrumentation, methods, and applications in areas of nanobiotechnology, integrating interdisciplinary research and development of interest to scientists, engineers, manufacturers, teachers, and students.
Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine: Methods...
Nanomaterials are at the leading edge of the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology. Their unique size-dependent properties make these materials superior and indispensable in many areas of human activity. This brief review tries to summarise the most recent developments in the field of applied nanomaterials, in particular their application in biology and medicine, and discusses their commercialisation prospects.
The worldwide emergence of nanoscale science and engineering was marked by the announcement of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in January 2000. Recent research on biosystems at the nanoscale has created one of the most dynamic science and technology domains at the confluence of physical sciences, molecular engineering, biology, biotechnology and medicine. This domain includes better understanding of living and thinking systems, revolutionary biotechnology processes, the synthesis of new drugs and their targeted delivery, regenerative medicine, neuromorphic engineering and developing a sustainable environment. Nanobiosystems research is a priority in many countries and its relevance within nanotechnology is expected to increase in the future.
Nanomedicine: NBM is an international, peer-reviewed journal presenting novel, significant, and interdisciplinary theoretical and experimental results related to nanoscience and nanotechnology in the life and health sciences. Content includes basic, translational, and clinical research addressing diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, prediction, and prevention of diseases.Nanomedicine: NBM journal publishes articles on artificial cells, regenerative medicine, gene therapy, infectious disease, nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, stem cell and tissue engineering.
Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering.
BIOEN 487 Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (3)Explores basic concepts of nanoscience and the current literature, focusing on practical applications for nanotechnology in biology and medicine. Prerequisite: CHEM 142, CHEM 144, or CHEM 145; BIOL 180. Offered: W.View course details in MyPlan: BIOEN 487
BIOEN 587 Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (3)Explores basic concepts of nanoscience and the current literature, focusing on practical applications for nanotechnology in biology and medicine.View course details in MyPlan: BIOEN 587
His research interests include bionanotechnology, BioMEMS, lab on a chip, interfacing of biology and engineering from the molecular to the tissue scale, and applications of semiconductor fabrication to biomedical engineering, all applied to solving biomedical problems. He has been involved in 3 startups that have licensed his technologies.
Division expertise in biology, nanotechnology, and information processing, combined with research capabilities elsewhere within Ames, is driving the development of novel biotechnologies that will benefit both space exploration and life on Earth.
Nanotechnology, the creation of structures, devices, and systems on the atomic scale, holds the potential to revolutionize many aspects of space exploration and create novel biotechnologies with broad applications to life on Earth. At Ames, the study of nanotechnology works towards the development of ever smaller and more powerful sensors and information storage devices. These include devices that can detect single molecules of nucleic acids, such as DNA, and rapidly decode the genetic blueprints of a diverse range of model organisms from yeast to humans. Other projects combine biology with materials science to develop bio-nanotechnology techniques with the potential to open new horizons in electronics technologies. As well as conducting research supporting NASA's visions for space exploration, scientists at Ames are continually working with government, academic, and industrial partners in Silicon Valley and throughout the country to enhance the research, development, and application of nanotechnology.
Scientists at the Center for Nanotechnology focus on state-of-the-art intersection of biology and materials science. Bio-nanotechnology applies the concepts and techniques of molecular biology to engineering objectives, such as the use of proteins as templates for the production of nano-scale electronic circuits, a technique currently under development at Ames. Proteins are biomolecules that can naturally form highly-ordered structures and most importantly can be modified and manipulated by genetic engineering. 041b061a72