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Published on: November 14, 2018
Biomedical applications of nanodiamonds: From drug-delivery to diagnostics
Jingru Xu1, Edward Kai-Hua Chow2
1NUS Centre for Cancer Research (N2CR), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore; Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, 117599 Singapore; Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 117600 Singapore.
Abstract:
Advances in nanotechnology have great potential to address many unmet clinical and biomedical needs. Nanodiamonds, as a class of carbon nanoparticles with unique properties, may be useful towards a versatile range of biomedical applications from drug delivery to diagnostics. This review describes how these properties of nanodiamonds facilitate their application in different fields of biomedicine, including delivery of chemotherapy drugs, peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and biosensors. Additionally, clinical potential of nanodiamonds, with studies in both preclinical and clinical stages, is also reviewed here, highlighting the translational potential of nanodiamonds in biomedical research.
