[...]... Laboratory-TASC, Instituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Basovizza (Trieste) Italy A.T Conlisk, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA Carlo Cosentino, Dept of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Universit` degli Studi a Magna Graecia di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy Vittorio Cristini, Dept of Biomedical Engineering/Mathetmatics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine,... Molecular Biology & Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey John P Sinek, Mathematics Dept., University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California USA Piyush M Sinha, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA Bryan Ronain Smith, Biomedical Engineering Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA Candan Tamerler, Materials Science... Pack, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois USA F Perennes, Sincrotrone Trieste ELETTRA, Basovizza (Trieste) Italy LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xvii R.Z Proietti, LILIT Group, National Nanotechnology Laboratory-TASC, Instituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Basovizza (Trieste) Italy Stanislav I Rokhlin, Nondestructive Evaluation Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA F... California USA Liming Dai, Dept of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio USA Paolo Decuzzi, CEMeC—Center of Excellence in Computational Mechanics, Dept of Experimental Medicine, University Magna Gracia at Catanzaro, Italy E Di Fabrizio, LILT Group, National Nanotechnology Laboratory-TASC, Instituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Basovizza (Trieste) Italy xvi LIST... Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; President, the Texas Alliance for NanoHealth, Houston, TX Hermann B Frieboes, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California USA John P Fruehauf, Medicine—Hematology/Oncology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California USA Francesco Gentile, Dept of Experimental Medicine, University Magna Gracia at Catanzaro, Italy Pingang... replacing Holiday pictures It has been a particular privilege to work with our Volume Editors: Sangeeta Bhatia, Rashid Bashir, Tejal Desai, Michael Heller, Abraham Lee, Jim Lee, Mihri Ozkan, and Steve Werely They have been nothing short of outstanding in their dedication, scientific vision, and generosity My gratitude goes to our Publisher, and in particular to Greg Franklin for his constant support and. .. intended to provide an introduction to nanoscale devices for biological and biomedical applications Sixteen chapters are included in this volume experts in the field of the nanobiotechnology have contributed to this work The volume is divided into three parts The first part, Synthetic Nanodevices for Biotechnology and Biomedicine; covers the fabrication and characterization techniques of representative nanoscale... electrode), in principle, can overcome many of these limitations The CNT-based cancer diagnostics sensor discussed here can provide instantaneous results, facilitating rapid turn around time and chemotherapy dosing regimens The detection ability can be 1 positive cell in 1000–10000 cells Current testing is targetted at in vitro application and may be extended for in vivo diagnostics in the future, eliminating... Biomedical Engineering Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA L Businaro, LILIT Group, National Nanotechnology Laboratory-TASC, Instituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Basovizza (Trieste) Italy S Cabrini, LILIT Group, National Nanotechnology Laboratory-TASC, Instituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Basovizza (Trieste) Italy D Cojoc, LILIT Group, National Nanotechnology. .. leadership, and to Angela De Pina for her assistance Most importantly, I wish to express my public gratitude in these pages to Paola, for her leadership, professional assistance throughout this effort, her support and her patience To her, and our children Giacomo, Chiara, Kim, Ilaria and Federica, I dedicate my contribution to BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology With my very best wishes Mauro Ferrari, . Graecia di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy Vittorio Cristini, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering/Mathetmatics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California USA Liming Dai, Dept. of Chemical and.