Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive survey of nanotechnology that reviews recent advances in nanotechnology-based drug and gene delivery systems and imaging approaches, and includes their biomedical significance, future prospects, and economic impact on pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries.
Trade Review“This volume highlights a number of approaches toward using nanotechnology for drug delivery, imaging, and therapeutic applications.” (
The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2009)
"[A] well-produced book, easy to find your way around … .Each chapter is accompanied by a detailed list of references that includes both popular science journals and the more specialised research literature." (Chemistry and Industry, November 2008)
Table of ContentsPreface.
Contributors.
1. Biological Applications of Multifunctional Magnetic Nanowires.
2. Nucleic Acid Delivery and Localizing Delivery with Magnetic Nanoparticles.
3. Magnetic Nanoparticles in Cancer Diagnosis and Hyperthermic Treatment.
4. Brownian Motion In Biological Sensing.
5. Dendrimers And Hyperbranched Polymers For Drug Delivery.
6. Nanogels: Chemistry to Drug Delivery.
7. Targeted Gold Nanoparticles for Imaging and Therapy.
8. Building Blocks of Nucleic Acid Nanostructures: Unfolding Thermodynamics of Intramolecular DNA Complexes.
9. Nanotoxicology.
Index.
About the Editors.
