Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering :
The application of nanotechnology in medicine, referred to
as nanomedicine, is offering numerous exciting possibilities in healthcare.
Drug delivery
Nanoscale delivery vehicles can (1) enhance the therapeutic
efficacy and minimize adversities associated with available drugs; (2) enable
new classes of therapeutics; and (3) encourage the re-investigation of
pharmaceutically suboptimal but biologically active new molecular entities that
were previously considered undevelopable.
Tissue engineering
Nanotechnology can enable the design and fabrication of
biocompatible scaffolds at the nanoscale and control the spatiotemporal release
of biological factors—resembling native extracellular matrix—to direct cell
behaviors, and eventually lead to the creation of implantable tissues.
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