Next generation stent coatings: convergence of biotechnology and nanotechnology.

Recent Advances in Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease: Role of Science and Technology

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. In the last decade, significant advancements in CAD treatment have been made. The existing treatment is medical, surgical or a combination of both depending on the extent, severity and clinical presentation of CAD. The collaboration between different science disciplines such as biotechnology and tissue engineerin...

Designing Biomedical Stents for Vascular Therapy: Current Perspectives and Future Promises

The breakthrough technologies of stent have revolutionized the medical industry, particularly in the field of percutaneous coronary interventions and other vascular therapies. However, recent concerns of late stent thrombosis and in-stent restenosis have rekindled an interest in developing new and improved therapeutic stent devices. A multidisciplinary approach of regeneration therapy, biomedic...

Electrospun membranes: Next generation membranes for desalination and water/wastewater treatment

Nanotechnology: convergence with modern biology and medicine.

The worldwide emergence of nanoscale science and engineering was marked by the announcement of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in January 2000. Recent research on biosystems at the nanoscale has created one of the most dynamic science and technology domains at the confluence of physical sciences, molecular engineering, biology, biotechnology and medicine. This domain includes bette...

Social and Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology: Lessons from Biotechnology and Other High Technologies

BIOTECHNOLOGY CAN BE BROADLY DEFINED as the use of specially bred living organisms to solve problems and produce new products or, more narrowly, as the intentional alteration of living organisms by manipulation of their DNA. In either case, nanotechnology—that is, the creation of moleculesize machines and other devices and the manipulation of substances molecule by molecule—will play an increas...