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In fewer than 15 years, nanomedicine has gone from fantasy to reality.
At the nanoscale old materials acquire new properties that International Institute for Nanotechnology Director Chad Mirkin thinks will change the way medicine is practiced.
Considered a renegade by his peers, Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel used a simple model to probe the neural circuitry of memory.
Nanotechnology will offer doctors new ways to diagnose and treat patients, boosting efficiency and slashing costs.
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It may be time to reconsider an AIDS vaccine which is more human than viral, triggering the immune system in a way that no other vaccine does.
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