Introduction Nanotechnology deals with objects with at least one dimension not exceeding 100 nm [1]. The notion of nanotechnology is strictly related to Richard Feynman’s lecture There’s plenty of room at the bottom, given in 1959 at the California Institute of Technology. In his lecture Feynman outlined the theoretical foundations of the arrangement of structures based on individual atoms and ...

Turkey is among the most populous countries of the world, and has a young population structure. The rate of consanguinity has been approximately 20-25% for the last 25 years. Various studies have shown that high consanguinity can be a contributing factor to the high incidence of some rare autosomal recessive diseases. Hemoglobinopathies are an important health problem, and Turkey also has one o...

Robotics and medical engineering can convert traditional surgery into digital and scientific procedures. Here, we describe our work to develop microsurgical robotic systems and apply engineering technology to assess microsurgical skills. With the collaboration of neurosurgeons and an engineering team, we have developed two types of microsurgical robotic systems. The first, the deep surgical sys...

We developed a prototype system that can provide reliable communications in the event of a medical disaster. The system uses redundant wireless protocols on handheld computers to deploy medical personnel, and to facilitate communication between ancillary treatment sites and a command center.

We describe a preliminary set of security requirements for safe and secure next-generation medical systems, consisting of dynamically composable units, tied together through a real-time safety-critical middleware. We note that this requirement set is not the same for individual (standalone) devices or for electronic health record systems, and we must take care to define systemlevel requirements...