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The Sackler Colloquium on promises and perils in nanotechnology for medicine

Robert H. Austin and Shuang-fang Lim
PNAS November 11, 2008 105 (45) 17217-17221; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709499105
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  1. Edited by Nicholas J. Turro, Columbia University, New York, NY, and approved September 23, 2008 (received for review September 6, 2008)

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vol. 105 no. 45 17217-17221
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709499105
PubMed: 
18981427

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue November 11, 2008.
  • Published first November 3, 2008.

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  1. Robert H. Austina and
  2. Shuang-fang Limb,1
  1. aDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; and
  2. bDepartment of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7612
  1. Edited by Nicholas J. Turro, Columbia University, New York, NY, and approved September 23, 2008 (received for review September 6, 2008)

Footnotes

  • 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: austin{at}princeton.edu
  • Author contributions: R.H.A. and S.-f.L. designed research; S.-f.L. performed research; S.-f.L. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; R.H.A. and S.-f.L. analyzed data; and R.H.A. and S.-f.L. wrote the paper.

  • This paper results from the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, “Nanomaterials in Biology and Medicine: Promises and Perils,” held April 10–11, 2007, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. The complete program and audio files of most presentations are available on the NAS web site at www.nasonline.org/nanoprobes.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

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