ABSTRACT
Medicine has also been fascinated by the exciting prospects of nanotechnology and now nanomedicine is a rapidly growing area of medical research. at fascination may have started in the 1960s when Isaac Asimov, in his book, Fantastic Voyage, reduced ve people to a microscopic fraction of their original size and sent them in a miniaturized atomic submarine through a dying man’s carotid artery to treat an intractable blood clot in his brain. Since then, researchers have been investigating if nanoparticles and nanodevices could be used in medicine and patients su ering from cancer, and infectious, neurological, degenerative, or cardiovascular diseases are likely to bene t from this research (Lanza et al., 2006; Caruthers et al., 2007; Singh et al., 2007; Zuo et al., 2007; Lammers et al., 2008).
