Advances in nanomaterials and nanotools are expected to drive the value of the global nanotechnol-ogy market to over one trillion dollars by 2015. Interestingly, these advances are also set to transform the way medicine is practiced today. According to Global Industry Analysts, the global nanomedicine market is expected to exceed $160 billion in the next six years.rnApplications of nanotechnol-ogy in medicine is not the future, it is a reality. An emerging concept is to engineer nanostructures, where the building blocks are bioactive.
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