One Small Step for Mankind: The Future of Nanomedicine
The Daily Record (Baltimore) › December 01, 2006
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In the future, medicine could be in the palm of your hand - quite literally, according to Peter Searson, director of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at the Johns Hopkins University.
Searson, speaking yesterday at a Greater Baltimore Committee symposium on nanomedicine, described a world in which patients could monitor their health by depositing a drop of blood into a nanoscience-powered device for analysis.See the full content of this document
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One Small Step for Mankind: The Future of Nanomedicine
"What's interesting here," he said, "is all the technologies to do this are in place already except this hand-held device."
Nanomedicine, basically defined as science on the nanoscale, is the missing piece, Searson explained to the audience of about 70 industry professio...See the full content of this document
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