ARTICLE IN PRESS - Nanomedicine

EDITORIALN anotechnology, Nanomedicine and nanosurgeryAn exciting revolution in health care and med-ical technology looms large on the horizon. Yet theagents of change will be microscopically small,future products of a new discipline known asnanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the engineer-ing of molecularly precise or smallereand, ultimately, the application of nano-technology to medicine. It is the preservationand improvement of human health, using molecu-lar tools and molecular knowledge of the humanbody. Present-day Nanomedicine exploits carefullystructured nanoparticles such as dendrimers,5car-bon fullerenes (buckyballs)6and nanoshells7totarget specific tissues and organs. These nanopar-ticles may serve as diagnostic and therapeutic an-tiviral, antitumor or anticancer agents. But as thistechnology matures in the years ahead, complexnanodevices and even nanorobots will be fabri-cated, first of biological materials but later usingmore durable materials such as diamond toachieve the most powerful visionCan it be that someday nanorobots will be able totravel through the body searching out and clearingup diseases, such as an arterial atheromatousplaque?

EDITORIAL Nanotechnology, nanomedicine and nanosurgery An exciting revolution in health care and med-ical technology looms large on the horizon.

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