12
Jun
2005
NIH Roadmap For Nanomedicine
The NIH has added nanomedicine to its roadmap initiative for medical research. "What if doctors could search out and destroy the very first cancer cells that would otherwise have caused a tumor to develop in the body? What if a broken part of a cell could be removed and replaced with a miniature biological machine? What if pumps the size of molecules could be implanted to deliver life-saving medicines precisely when and where they are needed? These scenarios may sound unbelievable, but they are the long-term goals of the NIH Roadmap's Nanomedicine initiative that we anticipate will yield medical benefits as early as 10 years from now." Nice to see that medical nanorobots as proposed by Robert Freitas are on the agenda front and center.
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