18^th Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Congress

Cancer nanotechnology is a branch of Nanotechnology concerned with the application of nanomaterial (such as nanoparticles for tumor imaging or drug delivery) and nanotechnology approaches (such as nanoparticle-based theranostics) to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The ability of DNA to self–assemble into a variety of nanostructures and Nano machines is highlighted in a growing number of papers in Nature Nanotechnology. The appeal of DNA to Nano scientists is threefold: first, it is a natural nanoscale material; second, a large number of techniques for studying DNA are already available; and third, its ability to carry information can be exploited in the self–assembly process. DNA is also increasingly being used to organize other nanomaterials, and the related field of RNA nanotechnology is beginning to emerge.