The “Nano” Approach to The Future Medicine
Author(s): Antonietta M. Gatti, Stefano Montanari
The article deals with a new aspect of medicine, the one that takes into consideration the impact of pollutants of anthropogenic origin and of nanometric dimensions on health, pollutants in the form of solid and inorganic particles increasingly present in the environment, in food and in drugs. The novel approach requires an interdisciplinary work in which the typical knowledge of medicine is flanked by those of chemistry, physics, and laboratory techniques, the main of which, but certainly not the only one, is that concerning electron microscopy.