Nanomedicine: Developing smarter therapeutic and diagnostic modalities

The early impact of nanotechnology on medicine is beginning to get realized, with novel nanoscale therapeutic and diagnostic modalities under development or in clinical practice today. In this commentary the field of nanomedicine is briefly reviewed form the perspective of where we were; where we are today; and where we are likely to go tomorrow. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.