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BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMedCentral Book review Open Access Review of Biomedical Nanotechnology, edited by Neelina H. Malsch Eduardo Abreu* Address: Childrens Hospital of Boston, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Enders 1022, 300 Longwood Street, Boston MA 02115, USA Email: Eduardo Abreu* - Eduardo.Abreu@ * Corresponding author Published: 22 March 2006 Received: 27 January 2006 Accepted: 22 March 2006 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2006, 5:20 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-5-20 This article is available from: /content/5/1/20 ? 2006 Abreu; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Book details this kind of data will become rapidly outdated. Further- more, this chapter could be enriched by the inclusion of a short summary about other countries. For example, are there any signs of biomedical nanothechnology initiatives in South America or in Asian countries other than Japan? Despite that, the analyzes in chapter 1 can be successfully used as models for those interested in producing similar work, either more updated or focusing in other countries or regions of the world. Chapters 2 through 4 describe the state of the art of biomedical nanotechnology research in 3 important subfields, already mentioned: drug delivery; prostheses and implants; and diagnostics and screening technologies. These are excellent chapters that have as merit the explanation of quite complex concepts in a sim- ple manner. The figures and pictures are extraordinarily simple (but of good quality) and helpful, and, along with excellent tables, complement the straightforward style of these chapters. The following chapters discuss the role of nanotechnology for biodefense, a very opportune topic, and the