tailieunhanh - BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology - Biomolecular Sensing, Processing and Analysis

Less than twenty years ago photolithography and medicine were total strangers to one another. They had not yet met, and not even looking each other up in the classifieds. And then, nucleic acid chips, microfluidics and microarrays entered the scene, and rapidly these strangers became indispensable partners in biomedicine. As recently as ten years ago the notion of applying nanotechnology to the fight against dis- ease was dominantly the province of the fiction writers. Thoughts of nanoparticle-vehicled delivery of therapeuticals to diseased siteswere an exercise in scientific solitude, and grounds for questioning one’s ability to think “like an established scientist”. And today we have nanoparticulate paclitaxel as the. | RASHID BASHIR STEVE WERELEY Editors Biomolecular Sensing Processing and Analysis BIOMEMS ANO BIOMEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY Mauro Ferrari Editor-in-Chief ÍÌỊ Springer BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology Volume IV Biomolecular Sensing Processing and Analysis BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology Mauro Ferrari . Editor-in-Chief Professor Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine Chairman Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Texas Health Science Center Houston TX Professor of Experimental Therapeutics University of Texas . Anderson Cancer Center Houston TX Professor of Bioengineering Rice University Houston TX Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston TX President the Texas Alliance for NanoHealth Houston TX Volume IV Biomolecular Sensing Processing and Analysis Edited by Rashid Bashir and Steve Wereley Purdue University West Lafayette .