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The Nanotechnology Revolution is in an embryonic stage today, but that shouldn’t deter us from marveling at the development of this fascinating technology.
Recently, we stumbled upon a company called Quantum Dot. The company is commercializing a powerful new tool that is revolutionizing biological discovery. The company's pioneering work is built around quantum dot (Qdot™) particles, tiny crystals developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Melbourne. These crystals, which are a ten-millionth of an inch in size (that’s small!), enable powerful new approaches to genetic analysis, drug discovery, and disease diagnostics.
Technology being pioneered by Quantum Dot may one day allow physicians to perform a variety of fast and inexpensive diagnostic tests. For example, the company is currently collaborating on a project with the National Institutes of Health in which quantum dots are beings used to examine tissue arrays from beast cancer biopsies.
Quantum Dot also announced a recent collaboration with biotech giant Genentech. Together, the companies will explore applications of Qdot nanocrystals in biological assays. QDot’s CEO Joel Martin believes that Genentech’s access to the company’s nanocystals will spark an exciting new era of drug discovery research.

The Quantum Dot Corporation is one of the early entrants into the exciting field of Nanomedicine. It’s not too far-fetched to imagine nano-sized probes that could be injected into the human body where they would provide continuous monitoring of vitals.

The Nanotechnology Revolution is likely to be the agent of change that gives physicians the ability to perform state of the art diagnostic tests far beyond anything previously imaginable.

Diagnostics is a critical part of the future of health care. In the past, doctors have been searching for viruses and other sources of illness for the most part in the dark.

In the future, they will come to see medicine in a whole new light.