Pharmacy & Drugs / Nanotechnology
Nanobiomedicine Vol. 5: Medical Nanobiotechnology
Description
Applications and usage of nanobiotechnology in medicine promise to offer the greatest benefits to society in the future. To realize this promise, it is essential to keep abreast of and understand the latest breakthroughs in the field. This volume on “Medical Nanobiotechnology” takes the readers on a journey through the cutting edge research on the most relevant topics of nanodiagnosis and nanotherapeutics. Banking on the expertise of eminent scientists working in this rapidly evolving field, it provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary advances in the subject. The book is a fair reflection of the practical nanobiological approaches currently employed to address numerous health issues providing the reader with a working knowledge of the science that underpins them. Beginning with introducing the role of nanotechnology in biotechnology, the book effortlessly builds upon several issues like pharmaceutical biotechnology, personalized medicine, stem cell-targeted nanotherapy and tissue-engineered nanoimplants. A logical structure has been adopted in the current book volume, addressing technologies in the most cohesive manner. At some points, the book allows us to delve in deeper nuances, while at others it permits some of the lesser known aspects of this fascinating discipline to be aired anew. The authors and the editors hope that the presented inclusive overviews will help students, researchers and practitioners to retrieve information of the backdrop and applications of this fascinating stream of nanobiotechnology. Let us learn more about it meticulously, and let us see how it will reinforce and transform the science of making lives healthier.
Table of Contents
Foreword to the Series; Foreword to the Volume; Editorial Members; About the Editors; List of Contributors; About the Series; Preface; Nanotechnology Today: Convergence and Contribution in Biotechnology (INDIA); Nanobiotechnology: Role in Biocatalysis and Biotransformation Processes (INDIA, KOREA); Pharmaceutical Bionanotechnology in Nanomedicine (MEXICO); Nanobiotechnology for Personalizing Medicine (INDIA, USA); Mitochondrial Targeting: A Voyage from Mitochondrial Drug Delivery to Mitochondrial Medicine (INDIA); Virus and Nanosized Viral Scaffolds as Drug Delivery Systems (INDIA); DNA Nanotechnology (INDIA); RNA Interference in Therapeutics: Issues, Solutions and Future Prospects (INDIA); Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of Peptide Nucleic Acids (USA); Utilisation of Toll-like Receptors and their Adaptors in Adjuvant Nano-Immunotherapy for Cancer (AUSTRALIA); Stem Cell-Targeted Nanotherapy for Cancer (AUSTRALIA); Biomedical Applications of Nano-Patterned Biodegradable Synthetic Polymers (ROMANIA); Stepping Up the Anti-Infectives to Nano-Biotherapeutics (INDIA); Developing a Customized Tissue-Engineered Implant for Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction: Role of Nanoparticles (ISRAEL, GERMANY); Nanoagriculture: An Emerging Frontier (INDIA); Appendix-I: Table of Contents of Nanobiomedicine Series (Vols. 1 to 6); Subject Index