nanotechnology nanoparticles

nanotechnology nanoparticles

Nanotechnology nanoparticles are microscopic particles whose size is measured in nanometers and made by means of nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology nanoparticles are being used in a number of industries. Nanoscale materials are used in electronic, magnetic and photographic, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, energy catalytic and materials applications. Often such particles are used in biomedical applications acting as drug carriers or imaging agents.

Nanoparticles can target cancer cells for use in the molecular imaging of a malignant lesion. Large numbers of nanoparticles are injected into the body and preferentially bind to the cancer cell, defining the anatomical contour of the lesion and making it visible.

These nanoparticles give us the ability to see cells and molecules that we otherwise cannot detect through conventional imaging. The ability to pick up what happens in the cell - to monitor therapeutic intervention and to see when a cancer cell is mortally wounded or is actually activated - is critical to the successful diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

Nanoparticulate technology can prove to be very useful in cancer therapy allowing for effective and targeted drug delivery by overcoming the many biological, biophysical and biomedical barriers that the body stages against a standard intervention such as the administration of drugs or contrast agents.