Nanowire sensors for medicine and the life sciences.

@article{Patolsky2006NanowireSF,
  title={Nanowire sensors for medicine and the life sciences.},
  author={Fernando Patolsky and Gengfeng Zheng and Charles M. Lieber},
  journal={Nanomedicine},
  year={2006},
  volume={1 1},
  pages={
          51-65
        }
}
The interface between nanosystems and biosystems is emerging as one of the broadest and most dynamic areas of science and technology, bringing together biology, chemistry, physics and many areas of engineering, biotechnology and medicine. The combination of these diverse areas of research promises to yield revolutionary advances in healthcare, medicine and the life sciences through, for example, the creation of new and powerful tools that enable direct, sensitive and rapid analysis of… 
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