ABSTRACT
Nanoscience and nanotechnology subject papers are published in leading medical journals, including traditional prestige publications like The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Society. Practical application of nanotechnology came out of research labs into widespread application with the development of microelectronics. As integrated microelectronics expanded rapidly to meet the demands of its various markets, a virtous cycle evolved—each generation of miniaturization provided capabilities that enabled further improvements in size, speed, and power consumption. Medical nanotechnology and nanomedicine are generally established as having key roles to play in medical research and increasingly in medical practice. Nanotechnology is being used pragmatically by medicine because it is yielding results in drug delivery, imaging, surgery, tissue repair, and other areas. In medicine, the initial vision of nano-robots tended to discredit the idea of nanotechnology for medical applications.
