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Nanotechnology for biomedicine: past, present and future

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During the last few years nanotechnology has made many advances especially in the biomedical area. Some of the terminology is defined with illustrative devices under consideration discussed here with a view toward what will be coming up in the future.

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      PETRA '09: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
      June 2009
      481 pages
      ISBN:9781605584096
      DOI:10.1145/1579114

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