Early Nanotechnology in Medicine

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Diagnostics and pinpoint, per-cell drug delivery are the first applications of nanoscale engineering in medicine, as noted at Medical News Today. However mundane it might sound in comparison to plausible visions of future nanomedicine, steady infrastructure improvements are the real wheel of progress: "While the mortality rates of many cancers have decreased significantly in recent decades, the rate for ovarian cancer had not changed much in the last 50 years, primarily due to delays in diagnosis. By exploiting the unique properties of nanotechnology, we hope to detect ovarian cancer earlier using highly sensitive imaging tools and develop drug carriers that can deliver therapeutic agents inside tumor cells. ... We believe this 'small-particle' technology has the capability to quickly and sensitively detect cancer molecules earlier than ever before."

Link: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=49682