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Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025) Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure (2025) / Chapter Skim
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... pesticides, fungicides, and nutrients. They cite an example of the use of nanoscale materials to improve plant nutrition as a defense against disease.
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From page 66...
... The advancements in biology and medicine have been supported by access to the most modern nano fabrication and imaging tools made available to this expanding community by the nanotechnology infrastructure. The biology and medical communities have effectively utilized the advances in nanotechnology and infrastructure of the NNI.
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From page 67...
... The National Cancer Institute "established the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory to support the extramural research community to accelerate the prog ress of nanomedicine by providing preclinical characterization and safety testing of nanoparticles."9 Nanoparticles can be designed to target drugs to specific cells or tissues, improving the efficacy and reducing the side effects of treatments. The use of lipid nanoparticles to deliver RNA to cells represented a breakthrough in vaccine development that had a profound effect on the world's response the ­COVID-19 pandemic and ushered in an entirely new approach to treatment of a 9 National Cancer Institute, n.d., "Nanotechnology Characterization Lab," https://ostr.ccr.cancer.gov/ resources/provider_details/nanotechnology-characterization-laboratory-ncl, accessed November 14, 2024.
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... This figure presents lipid nanoparticles measured by three technologies, atomic force microscopy (AFM) , transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
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  • genetic information
  • electron microscopy
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  • nanoscale structures
  • transmission electron


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