BILL ARSENAULT
Nanotechnology is poised to completely transform the practice of medicine. The unique physical properties of nanomaterials hold multifaceted promise for medical applications, making nanomedicine a game-changing subfield. Researchers are developing new methods that will facilitate tracking disease markers at very early stages and monitoring them as a disease progresses. This type of tracking will bring us closer to the implementation of personalized medicine, in which we will differentiate patient populations based upon their responsiveness to candidate therapies. Recent advances in nanotechnology also offer the possibility of exquisite selectivity in the delivery of therapeutic payloads.
These approaches have the potential to substantially lower health-care and pharmaceutical-development costs, because many expensive therapeutics are now broadly and needlessly administered, even when their effectiveness is questionable for a significant ...
