Nanomedicine’s Promise Is Anything but Tiny | WP | 1.31.05
It was a small wedding. Very small. But big changes are coming from the marriage of medicine and nanotechnology, the new branch of science that deals with things a few millionths of an inch in size.
Think “tiny medicine,” and you probably think “Fantastic Voyage,” the 1966 movie (and Isaac Asimov book) about a minuscule medical crew submarining through a patient’s circulatory system. In fact, some nanomedicine experts foresee a day when invisibly small robots will cruise through the body looking for signs of disease…
Quantum Dot Diagnostics…
Nursing Neurons With Nanogels…
Blood Test in a Nanotube…
Frying Tumors…
With nearly $10 billion slated for investment in nanotech research this year, nanomedicine is sure to get hotter as well.
A mite examines a gear chain produced using nanotechnology
Nanomedicine is here—not quite the fictionalized nanonics, more in keeping with Feynman’s “…room at the bottom.”
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