ABSTRACT

The emergence of nanotechnology is setting high expectations in biological science and medicine, and many scientists predict that nanotechnology will solve many key questions of biological systems that transpire at the nanoscale. Nanomedicine has been drawing considerable attention in the area of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has revolutionized biomedical science step by step by improving efficiency and accuracy of current diagnostic techniques, and by extending scopes for the better understanding of diseases at the molecular level. One of the important technological aspects in nanomedicine lies in the ability to tune materials in a way that their spatial and temporal scales are compatible with biomolecules. The search for novel ways to explore and understand biomolecular interactions has been sought in many ways, since interactions between biomolecules are fundamentally intriguing. Interdisciplinary knowledge from molecular biology, bioorganic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, and surface chemistry must be employed to functionalize nanostructures with biomolecules.