Abstract

Recently, the explosion of progress in the science and engineering of materials at the Nano scale level has paved the way for a new category of healthcare technologies generally termed Nano medicine. Nano medicine involves manipulating, engineering, and exploiting different material properties at the nanometer level to design products that can improve the currently used technologies for biomedical applications. While traditional therapeutic agents have allowed for very little control in terms of their distribution in the body and clearing times, engineering at the Nano scale level has allowed for significant advances in optimizing the biocompatibility, bio distribution and pharmacokinetics of various medical technologies.