Editorial: Biochips and nanobiotechnology

Editorial Nanobiotechnology today : focus on nanoparticles

In the recent years the nanobiotechnology field and the Journal of Nanobiotechnology readership have witnessed an increase in interest towards the nanoparticles and their biological effects and applications. These include bottom-up and molecular self-assembly, biological effects of naked nanoparticles and nano-safety, drug encapsulation and nanotherapeutics, and novel nanoparticles for use in m...

Biosensors and Biochips

Yeast Nanobiotechnology

Yeast nanobiotechnology is a recent field where nanotechniques are used to manipulate and analyse yeast cells and cell constituents at the nanoscale. The aim of this review is to give an overview and discuss nanobiotechnological analysis and manipulation techniques that have been particularly applied to yeast cells. These techniques have mostly been applied to the model yeasts Saccharomyces cer...

Nanobiotechnology Patents

Nanobiotechnology is a result of converging length scales of study in various technological fields. For example, traditional materials engineering focused on the properties of bulk materials, chemistry focused on atomic and molecular level interactions, physics focused on subatomic phenomena, and biology focused on organic molecular and supramolecular interactions. Now, with powerful imaging an...

Membrane biochips.

Membrane-bound proteins represent the single most important class of drug targets. This article discusses the issues surrounding fabrication of membrane-protein microarrays by conventional robotic pin printing techniques. Ligand binding selectivity and specificity to G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) microarrays are presented. The potential applications of these arrays for drug screening are di...