Nanomedicine

About Nanomedicine (the field)

Molecular nanotechnology has been defined as the three-dimensional positional control of molecular structure to create materials and devices to molecular precision. The human body is comprised of molecules, hence the availability of molecular nanotechnology will permit dramatic progress in human medical services. More than just an extension of "molecular medicine," nanomedicine will employ molecular machine systems to address medical problems, and will use molecular knowledge to maintain and improve human health at the molecular scale. Nanomedicine will have extraordinary and far-reaching implications for the medical profession, for the definition of disease, for the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions including aging, and ultimately for the improvement and extension of natural human biological structure and function.

"Nanomedicine is the preservation and improvement of human health using molecular tools and molecular knowledge of the human body."





About Nanomedicine (the book series)

Nanomedicine, the technical book series, will be published in four Volumes over the course of several years. This website is the first commercial Internet domain exclusively devoted to nanomedicine and is also the permanent online home of the Nanomedicine book series. Volume I was published by Landes Bioscience in October 1999. Volume IIA was published by Landes Bioscience in October 2003. Volume IIB and Volume III will be published in future years. Visitors are encouraged to employ links to specific subsections of these Volumes in their own books, papers, or online discussions. All local URLs and anchored book links from this website will remain stable.

Landes Bioscience is to be congratulated, not only for the tremendous range and quality of its publications but also for its generous and farsighted embrace of simultaneous web-based publication of the Nanomedicine book series, which will better enable debate on, and the evolution of, this work. By 2002, Landes Bioscience had published more than 700 bioscience and biomedicine books. Unique among technical book publishers, Landes Bioscience is allowing many of its books to be indexed and made freely available online via the Bookshelf database operated by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which also operate the related Medline/PubMed service. Access to a comprehensive compendium of biomedicine and bioscience chapters from the most current books is available for a modest monthly or annual subscription fee via the publisher’s eurekah.com website.

Nanomedicine, Volume I was published by Landes Bioscience in October 1999 while Freitas was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing in Palo Alto, California, an organization that sponsored this work along with the Foresight Institute. This support was much appreciated by the author.

Nanomedicine, Volume IIA, was published by Landes Bioscience in October 2003 while Freitas was a Research Scientist during 2000-2004 at Zyvex Corp., a nanotechnology company headquartered in Richardson, Texas. Zyvex should be applauded for its generous early support of this important work

Freitas is now completing Nanomedicine, Volumes IIB and III and is also consulting on molecular assembler and nanofactory design as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing.





About Robert Freitas and his Nanomedicine-Related Websites

Information about the author, Robert A. Freitas Jr., is available at the author’s homepage. Nanomedicine-related websites associated with Robert Freitas include the Nanomedicine Book Site, the Nanomedicine Art Gallery, and the Nanomedicine Page. The Nanomedicine Page includes a nontechnical nanomedicine FAQ and hundreds of links to articles, papers, websites, people and organizations who are active in the field of nanomedicine.

The nanomedicine.com domain is owned and webmastered by Robert A. Freitas Jr. Please report errors at this website, whether typographical or substantive, to him.



ref: http://www.nanomedicine.com/