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Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine encompasses a spectrum of materials and technologies that have been optimised to enable more sensitive diagnosis and/or more efficient therapies for various diseases. The use of nanomaterials in medicine opens up the possibility of integrating an increasing number of functionalities in a material to achieve a detectable biological response. This targets specific cells or subcellular compartments to release drugs or act as tracers in imaging. In nanomedicine, nano(bio)materials are used, for example, as contrast agents in imaging, in cancer therapy for hyperthermia treatment and as drug delivery systems.
Nanomedicine encompasses a spectrum of materials and technologies that have been optimised to enable more sensitive diagnosis and/or more efficient therapies for various diseases. The use of nanomaterials in medicine opens up the possibility of integrating an increasing number of functionalities in a material to achieve a detectable biological response. This targets specific cells or subcellular compartments to release drugs or act as tracers in imaging. In nanomedicine, nano(bio)materials are used, for example, as contrast agents in imaging, in cancer therapy for hyperthermia treatment and as drug delivery systems.