title: Genetic nanomedicine and tissue engineering.
abstract: This article describes current investigative directions in nanotechnology-based medicine. It discusses cell sheet engineering, the molecular design of self-assembling peptide nanomaterials; the reconstitution of membrane protein systems on giant liposomes as artificial cell models, a biochemically engineered molecular communication system, and the use of split-reporter reconstitution analysis to image biomolecules in living cells and animals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street/Harvey 606, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. chimingwei@gmail.com
authors.forename: Chiming
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamato
authors.forename: Wenchi
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Xiaojun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Kanta
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsumoto
authors.forename: Tetsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.forename: Takeaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: Yu-Ju
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005826:Genetics, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000639:trends*; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*