Emerging Technologies in Nanotechnology-Based Pathogen Detection

Nanotechnology-based pathogen detection is an emerging technology that is poised to have a major impact on health care and medicine, food and agriculture, the environment, and biodefense. The technology bridges a variety of sciences, including biology, chemistry, physics, and statistics to create a new cadre of tools and capabilities that can be applied to basic and translational research, diagnostics, and commercialization. This burgeoning...