Cancer Nanotechnology

Mohammed Chyad Al-Noaemi
2018 Current Trends in Biomedical Engineering & Biosciences  
Opinion Nanotechnology is the study of extremely small structures, having size of 0.1 to 100 nm. In 1959, the lecture of the American physicist Richard Feynman, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", inspired the conceptual foundations of nanotechnology many years later. The Japanese scientist called Norio Taniguchi of Tokyo University of Science was first to use the term "nano-technology" in a 1974 conference. However, the term was not used again until 1981 when the American scientist "Eric
more » ... exler", who was unaware of Taniguchi's prior use of the term, published his first paper on nanotechnology in 1981. Eric Drexler developed and popularized the concept of nanotechnology and founded the field of molecular nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has direct beneficial applications for medicine, environment, engineering, biology, chemistry, computing, materials science, and communications. The future of nanotechnology is boundless, according to some speakers. Some of the items that exist today were a topic of science fiction a decade ago and have the potential to transform our society very quickly, as it has been said by Douglas Mulhall. Advancement in the field of nanotechnology and its applications to the field of medicines and pharmaceuticals has revolutionized the twentieth century. Nano medicine is a relatively new field of science and technology which concern with the medical application of nanotechnology. The approaches to nanomedicine range from the medical use of nanomaterials, to nanoelectronics biosensors, and even possible future applications of molecular nanotechnology. The main medical applications of nanotechnology are in the fields of; (1) Imaging and diagnostics known as theranostic; (2) Therapeutics which include cancer treatment, bone treatment, and pharmaceutical drug delivery system. The journal Nature Materials estimated that 130 nanotech-based drugs and delivery systems were being developed worldwide.
doi:10.19080/ctbeb.2018.14.555832 fatcat:mh4sh3m435chhjwmet44i3n4ly