"There is a "can" in Cancer because we can beat it."
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NanotechonologyNanotechnology is the science and engineering of controlling matter at the molecular scale to create devices of novel chemical, physical and/or biological properties. Nanotechnology can also be described as the application of nanoscale objects and can almost be used in all aspects of the scientific community: chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, and materials science. It was first introduced to the world by physicist Richard Feynman at the American Physical Society meeting in CalTech in 1529. However, the modern age of nanotechnology was not born until the 1980s when scientists invented the microscopes and other tools that allow them to see atoms. The concept of nanoscience and nanotechnology involves the manipulation of individual molecules and atoms. The first ideas in nanotechnology were viewed as impossible by the public and as science fiction: motors, entire computers, and robots all on the nanoscale- just a few nanometers wide. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter; it is even smaller than the wavelength of visible light, but as tiny as nanotechnology may seem, it is still virtually large on the atomic scale.
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