The increasing availability and growth rate of biomedical information, also known as 'big data', provides an opportunity for future personalized medicine programs that will significantly improve patient care. Recent advances in information technology (IT) applied to biomedicine are changing the landscape of privacy and personal information, with patients getting more control of their health inf...

April 2016 marks the beginning of a new phase of the Graphene Flagship1. This first phase of the Core Project — lasting for 3 years and supported by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (http://go.nature. com/CNOjo6) — consolidates some of the topics already explored during the ramp-up phase of this €1 billion research initiative, and further extends the technolo...

The distinctive physicochemical, mechanical and electrical properties of carbon nanostructures are currently gaining the interest of researchers working in bioengineering and biomedical fields. Carbon nanotubes, carbon dendrimers, graphenic platelets and nanodiamonds are deeply studied aiming at their application in several areas of biology and medicine.   Here we provide a summary of the carbo...

Photoacoustic imaging also called optoacoustic or thermoacoustic imaging has the potential to image animal or human organs, such as the breast and the brain, with simultaneous high contrast and high spatial resolution. This article provides an overview of the rapidly expanding field of photoacoustic imaging for biomedical applications. Imaging techniques, including depth profiling in layered me...