ARTICLE IN PRESS 3 What is nanomedicine (original) (raw)

9 10 The early genesis of the concept of nanomedicine sprang from the visionary idea that tiny nanorobots 11 and related machines could be designed, manufactured, and introduced into the human body to perform 12 cellular repairs at the molecular level. Nanomedicine today has branched out in hundreds of different 13 directions, each of them embodying the key insight that the ability to structure materials and devices at 14 the molecular scale can bring enormous immediate benefits in the research and practice of medicine.