Genetic nanomedicine and tissue engineering.
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.
Wei
Chiming
C
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street/Harvey 606, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. chimingwei@gmail.com
Yamato
Masayuki
M
Wei
Wenchi
W
Zhao
Xiaojun
X
Tsumoto
Kanta
K
Yoshimura
Tetsuro
T
Ozawa
Takeaki
T
Chen
Yu-Ju
YJ
D000818:Animals; D005826:Genetics, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000639:trends*; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*