Abstract

For past few years, nanotechnology has transformed the landscape of healthcare technologies. Nanotherapeutics is an application-oriented field of nanotechnology and has a wide impact in the field of medicine. The groundbreaking innovations in the field of material sciences have paved the path for nanotherapeutics, due to which nanotherapeutics have advanced remarkably and now it has become possible to deliver drugs in a target/site-specific manner. Multiple disorders like diabetes, cancer, hematological disorders, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases are the principal fields that could gain from nanotherapeutics. Also, the development of multifunctional nanotherapeutics has the potential to fill the existing gap in the current therapeutic domain. Nanotherapeutics can improve the effectiveness of the drug with minimal toxicity concerns. The development in the field of nanotherapeutics is highly impressive and has gained immense interest in pharmaceutical industries as well as in the research sector. In the present mini review, we make an attempt to highlight the recent advances in the field of nanomedicine particularly with respect to nanotherapeutics.

Keywords: Nanotechnology; Nanomedicine; Nanotherapeutics; Drug delivery; Biomedical applications

Abbreviations: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML); Cystic Fibrosis (CF); Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV); Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV); Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC); Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Resveratrol Loaded Lipid-Core- Nanocapsules (RSV-LNC); Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID); Solid Tumor Malignancy (STM)