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<p>Preface vii</p> <p><b>Part I Laboratory Techniques </b><b>1</b></p> <p>1 Microfluidics in Nanomedicine 3<br /> <i>YongTae Kim and Robert Langer</i></p> <p>2 Quantum Dots for Biomedical Delivery Applications 29<br /> <i>Abolfazl Akbarzadeh, Sedigheh Fekri Aval, Roghayeh Sheervalilou, Leila Fekri, Nosratollah Zarghami, and Mozhdeh Mohammadian</i></p> <p><b>Part II Devices </b><b>43</b></p> <p>3 DNA Origami Nanorobots 45<br /> <i>Ido Bachelet</i></p> <p>4 Graphene and Graphene Derivatives in Biosensing, Imaging, Therapeutics, and Genetic Engineering 71<br /> <i>KimTruc Nguyen and Yanli Zhao</i></p> <p>5 Synthetic Gene Circuits 107<br /> <i>Barbara Jusiak, Ramiz Daniel, Fahim Farzadfard, Lior Nissim, Oliver Purcell, Jacob Rubens, and Timothy K. Lu</i></p> <p>6 Synthetic Hybrid Biosensors 163<br /> <i>Apoorv Shanker, Kangwon Lee, and Jinsang Kim</i></p> <p><b>Part III Pharmaceutical Delivery </b><b>199</b></p> <p>7 Carbon Nanotubes for Enhanced Biopharmaceutical Delivery 201<br /> <i>Harikrishna Rallapalli and Bryan Ronain Smith</i></p> <p>8 Cholesterol in Nanobiotechnology 227<br /> <i>Philipp Schattling, Yan Zhang, Boon M. Teo, and Brigitte Städler</i></p> <p>9 Nanoparticle Conjugates for Small Interfering RNA Delivery 279<br /> <i>Timothy L. Sita and Alexander H. Stegh</i></p> <p>10 Role of Scavenger Receptors in Immune Recognition and Targeting of Nanoparticles 305<br /> <i>Guankui Wang and Dmitri Simberg</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Cancer </b><b>329</b></p> <p>11 Gold and Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Antibody Guides to Find and Destroy Cancer Cells 331<br /> <i>Stephanie A. Parker, Isabel A. Soto, Dickson K. Kirui, Cameron L. Bardliving, and Carl A. Batt</i></p> <p>12 RNA Interference in Cancer Therapy 357<br /> <i>Barbara Pasculli and George A. Calin</i></p> <p>13 Smart Nanoparticles in Brain Cancer Therapy 411<br /> <i>Yinhao Wu, Tao Sun, Lisha Liu, Xi He, Yifei Lu, Sai An, and Chen Jiang</i></p> <p><b>Part V Tissue Engineering and Regeneration 429</b></p> <p>14 Bone Tissue Engineering: Nanomedicine Approaches 431<br /> <i>Michael E. Frohbergh, Peter Newman, Calogera M. Simonaro, and Hala Zreiqat</i></p> <p>Index 457</p>

Robert A. Meyers obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and has more than 17 patents, 50 technical papers and 12 books to his name. As Editor-in-Chief he conceived and edited several ambitious multivolume reference works, e.g. the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry (Wiley), the Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine (Wiley-VCH) and the Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology (Academic Press).

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