Nanomedicines

Abstract |Nanotechnology is an emerging scientific field creating materials, devices and systems at the molecular level. By being able to work at the ultra-small scale( billionth of a metre), nanotechnology is being used to deliver innovations in sectors including health.Nanomedicine is the medical application of Nanoscience which ranges application of
Nanomaterials to Nanoelectronic biosensors and even future applications of molecular technology. Around 130 nano-tech based drugs and delivery systems are been developed worldwide (Nature materials, April 2006) .
Nanomedicine exploits the improved physical, chemical and biological properties of materials at the nanoscale, and offers the potential to enable early detection, prevention, improved diagnosis and imaging, treatment of diseases. Nanomedicine includes targeted delivery and regenerative medicine; it interfaces nanomaterials (surfaces, particles, etc) or analytical instruments with
"living" human material (cells, tissue, body fluids).Nanomedicines are solution to some disease like Cancer, diabetics, cardiovascular diseases, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Uses of NanoMedicine :
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Targeted drug delivery

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Diagnosis and Imaging

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Regenerative medicines

Targeted drug delivery
Target drug delivery seeks to concentrate medicine to diseased cells/tissues and organs. This is in contrast to current drug delivery trends were a medication is generally administered through the blood supply resulting in only a small amount of the drug reaching the affected area.
Another good example is Cancer treatment through chemotherapy, in which cancer effected cell are radiated ,but this cause severe damage to unaffected cells to reduce damaging of unaffected cells we directly target to the diseased cells by Nanomedicines.

Diagnosis and Imaging (Muldoon, et al., 2005)
NanoMedicine researchers seek to identify and cure life-threatening diseases at the earliest