Nanomedicine

Biological transport and diagnosis

Nanomedicine studies carriers, surfaces and signals for delivery, imaging, diagnostics and other carefully defined biomedical tasks.

Size, surface chemistry and biological identity influence transport; preclinical promise is not equivalent to clinical benefit.

Questions to ask

• What biological barrier is involved?
• Where does the material distribute?
• What evidence stage has been reached?

Examples

• Lipid carriers
• Imaging contrast agents
• Diagnostic nanoparticles