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Nanorobotics and Nanodiagnostics in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine: A Note from the Editors

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Nanosystem is structured at or below the micrometer range, made of assemblies of nanoscale components with individual dimensions ranging between 1 and 100 nm. “Nanorobotics and nanodiagnostics” is a new generation of biohybrid that translates fundamental biological principles into engineering design rules to create biorobots that perform like natural systems. These biorobotics and diagnostics can now perform various tasks at the nanoscale in a wide variety of fields, including but not limited to fields such as integrative biology and biomedicine. Nanorobotics and Nanodiagnostics in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine offers a comprehensive overview of the emerging interdisciplinary field with a wide-ranging discussion that includes nanotherapeutics and nanorobotic manipulation in biology and medicine. It provides up-to-date knowledge of the promising fields of integrative biology and biomedicine for nano-assisted biorobotics and diagnostics to detect and treat diseases that will enable new scientific discoveries.

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This work was supported by the “Basic Science Research Program” through the “National Research Foundation of Korea” funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2018R1A16A1A03025582, NRF- 2019R1D1A3A03103828, and NRF- 2022R1I1A3063302).

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    Ki-Taek Lim

  2. Agricultural Research Center, Plant Pathology Research Institute, Giza, Egypt

    Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam

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Lim, KT., Abd-Elsalam, K.A. (2023). Nanorobotics and Nanodiagnostics in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine: A Note from the Editors. In: Lim, KT., Abd-Elsalam, K.A. (eds) Nanorobotics and Nanodiagnostics in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16084-4_1

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