• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.10-15
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• 2006

Nanobiotechnology has attracted increasing interest during the last 10 years. Particularly in the fields of medicine, drug discovery, and pharmacology, this area of research has opened up new perspectives in analytics and therapy. Nanobiotechnolgy is a typical interdisciplinary field of research, and is based on the cooperative work of biologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, and medical doctors. This review article describes recent research and development of nanobiotechnology including nanobioanalysis, nanobiochip/sensor and nanobiomaterials.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.223-231
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• 2006

Nanobiotechnology, the interdisciplinary area at the crossroad of biotechnology and nanoscience, combines contributions from molecular and cell biology, chemisty, material science, and physics in an attempt to understand the behavior of nanobiomaterials, their development and applications. At present, nanobiotechnology is believed to hold great promise for improving health and prolonging life, faciliating biomarker discovery, molecular diagnostics, discovery of novel drugs and drug delivery, which are important basic components of biomedical science. In the recent trend of nanobiotechnology, this review is intended to provide a better understanding of nanobiotechnology in its applications and perspectives, separating this integration technology into three parts such as nanobiochip/sensor, nanobiomaterials, and nanobioanalysis in order to hopefully gain insights into why size matters, how nano-materials and -devices can be engineered.