Robert A. Freitas Jr.
Nanomedicine volume I: basic capabilities.
Landes Bioscience. 1999
Molecular nanotechnology has been defined as
the three-dimensional positional control of
molecular structures to create materials
and devices to molecular precision.
The human body is comprised of molecules,
hence the availability of molecular nanotechnology
will permit dramatic progress in human medical services.
More than just an extension of “molecular medicine,” nanomedicine
will employ molecular knowledge to maintain and improve
human health at the molecular scale.
Nanomedicine will have extraordinary and far-reaching implications
for the medical profession, for the definition of disease,
for the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions including aging,
and ultimately for the improvement and extension of
natural human biological structure and function.