1Professor and Head, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
3Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
*Correspondence Dr. Shankargouda Patil. Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, MS Ramaiah Nagar, Bengaluru-560 054, Karnataka, India. Phone: +91-8050798169. Email: dr.ravipatil@gmail.com
Online published on 18 January, 2019.
Nanotechnology has currently taken the research in medical and dental field to the next pedestal. It is estimated to change health care by serving as a novel method for diagnosis, prevention, drug delivery, and gene therapy. One such effective tool, which facilitates in diagnosis and therapeutics, is nanobiopsy. Although a biopsy has been traditionally employed for definitive diagnosis, nanobiopsy is the choice of modern technology. Nanobiopsy, a nanotechnology-based device interrogates an individual cell without sacrificing them and follows the principle of scanning ion conductance microscopy. Furthermore, it facilitates the researcher to take repeated samples and study the disease at the molecular level when compared to routine techniques. This review highlights the importance of nanobiopsy and its scope.
Nanobiopsy, nanotechnology, scanning ion conductance microscopy
