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Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology Is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology, reviewed

December 20, 2019
Nanotechnology , reviewed

By @SimonCocking review of Nano Comes to Life, How Nanotechnology Is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology, available from Princeton Press here. Hardcover, Price: $24.95 / £22.00 ISBN: 9780691168807  Published: 11/05/2019 Copyright: 2019

Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale—the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet—and introduces readers to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life.

Sonia Contera gives an insider’s perspective on this new frontier, revealing how nanotechnology enables a new kind of multidisciplinary science that is poised to give us control over our own biology, our health, and our lives.

Drawing on her perspective as one of today’s leading researchers in the field, Contera describes the exciting ways in which nanotechnology makes it possible to understand, interact with, and manipulate biology—such as by designing and building artificial structures and even machines at the nanoscale using DNA, proteins, and other biological molecules as materials.

In turn, nanotechnology is revolutionizing medicine in ways that will have profound effects on our health and longevity, from nanoscale machines that can target individual cancer cells and deliver drugs more effectively, to nano antibiotics that can fight resistant bacteria, to the engineering of tissues and organs for research, drug discovery, and transplantation.

The future will bring about the continued fusion of nanotechnology with biology, physics, medicine, and cutting-edge fields like robotics and artificial intelligence, ushering us into a new “transmaterial era.” As we contemplate the power, advantages, and risks of accessing and manipulating our own biology, Contera offers insight and hope that we may all share in the benefits of this revolutionary research.

Review of Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology Is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology, reviewed

This is an exciting field and the author is clearly passionate about it too. It is impressive what can be done already, and how fast things are moving along too. The photographic section is also a welcome visual relief, and is truly striking with its visual illustration of laying down single atomic designs and smart insulin-releasing patches containing microneedles.

At times we had trouble following all of the details, but then perhaps this book is aimed at a more specialised reader than the general one. At the same time this is a fascinating area, and the more we can learn about it, the better able we will be to understand where the industry is going, and how it may be able to help us in our lives.

This lecture also helps to add some clarity around the book’s ideas too.

Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale—the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet—and introduces readers to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life.

Sonia Contera gives an insider’s perspective on this new frontier, revealing how nanotechnology enables a new kind of multidisciplinary science that is poised to give us control over our own biology, our health, and our lives.

See more in this Q and A with her here.

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