BE 550 Nano-Medicine
Physicist Richard Feynman in his 1959 presentation There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, described the possibility of synthesis via direct manipulation of atoms. Inspired by Feynman%27s ideas, K. Eric Drexler used the term nanotechnology in his 1986 dissertation, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, which proposed the idea of a nanoscale assembler which would be able to build a copy of itself and of other items with atomic control. For centuries scientists have been inspired to design the Philosopher's Stone, which produces the Elixir of Life; useful for rejuvenation and possibly for achieving immortality. There is an exciting possibility that through the use of nanomedicine via nanotechnology we are on the fringes of the Elixir of Life. Nanomedicine is an interdisciplinary science, which combines knowledge from Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics and Medicine to treat conditions and diseases of the human body on an atomic and molecular level. Nanomedicine has many applications, from drug delivery to individual cell repair, to regenerative tissues and atomic level therapy.