PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Lederman, Lynne ED - Mirkin, Chad A. TI - Nanomedicine Holds Promise for New Diagnostics and Therapeutics DP - 2015 Feb 01 TA - MD Conference Express PG - 8--9 VI - 14 IP - 49 4099 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/49/8.short 4100 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/49/8.full AB - When substances are reduced to nanoscale size, they display different properties. Nanoscale phenomena have been recognized for millennia, but the ability to rationally design, build, and manipulate nanoscale objects is fairly recent. In plenary talk, the promise of nanomedicine and the convergence of nanoscience and nanotechnology with medicine were discussed.