Medicine's most minuscule frontier.

• Autores: Marissa Fessenden
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 309, Nº. 2, 2013, págs. 23-23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, Tejal Desai. Topics include Desai's development of nanoscale and microscale medical devices, drug-delivery devices that interact with cellular features, such as tight junctions, to administer drugs, and development of a nanoscale device for people with age-related macular degeneration.