List of contributors -- Preface -- Nanomaterials and nanotechnology in medicine / P. M. Visakh -- Nanoneurology / Liron L. Israel and Eggehard Holler -- Nanomolecular diagnostics / Anila Fariq, Ayesha Selhaba, Anum Zulfiqar, and Azra Yasmin -- Nanopharmaceuticals / David Quintanar-Guerrero, Gerardo Leyva-Gómez, Nancy Evelyn Magaña Vergara, and Néstor Mendoza Muñoz -- Role of nanotechnology in biological therapies / Blanca Ocampo-García, Liliana Aranda Lara, Guillermina Ferro-Flores, Enrique Morales-Avila, and Keila Isaac-Olivé -- Nanomaterials for gene therapy / V. Karthik, A. Vigneshwaran, D. Dharun Daniel Raj, T.G.N. Nagrajun, S. Poornima, R. Subbaiya, and M. Saravanan -- Nanotools for the treatment of ocular diseases / Elisa J. Campos, António Campos, João Martins, and António F. Ambrósio -- Nanotechnology applications in food and nutrition science / Kobra S. Rizi, Majid Rezayi, Ehsan Aryan, Zahra Meshkat, and Majid G. Mobarhan -- Rubber nanocomposites for biomedical applications / Jayalatha Gopalakrishnan -- Nanomaterials and nanotechnology in medicine / P. M Visakh -- Nanomaterials and scaffolds for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine / Saeid Kargozar, Simin Nazarnezhad, Farzad Kermani, and Francesco Baino -- Nanorobotics in nanomedicine / Vaishali Y. Londhe and Rupali S. Bhadale -- Nanosensors / Asit Behera, A.K. Sahoo and S.S. Mohapatra -- Inorganic nanoparticles for drug-delivery applications / Chinnu Sabu, V.K. Ameena Shirin, Renu Sankar and K. Pramod -- Intelligent nanomaterials for medicine / Ajit Behera and Ranjan K. Mohapatra -- Polymer-based nanocomposites for biomedical applications / Chander Amgoth, Kaxi Yu, Shuai Chen, Hongzhen Bai and Guping Tang -- Toxicity of nanomaterials / Elham Abohamzeh, M. Sheikholeslami and Ahmad Shafee -- Multifunctional nanomaterials for medical applications / Jitha S Jayan, Ramya Rajan, Saritha Appukuttan, and Kuruvilla Joseph -- Antimicrobial applications of nanoparticles -- Index.