The medicine of tomorrow: four key innovations
From nanomedicine to e-health, researchers worldwide are working on the techniques and therapies that will reshape healthcare.
In a sector built on innovation, researchers around the world work day after day on new techniques and therapies to transform tomorrow's healthcare. From the infinitely small to e-health, here is a look at the medicine of the future.
Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine explores the infinitely small, with techniques and tools able to act on nanoparticles — matter "as small as a billionth of a metre, or one fifty-thousandth of a hair", as France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) puts it.
That extreme miniaturisation allows a treatment to be delivered where it is needed rather than throughout the body, which is the whole point: more effect at the target, less harm everywhere else.