What makes a cell tick at the nanometer (one billionth of a metre) length scale?  The chaotic and fluctuating world a cell lives in is rarely accessible to physical human touch.  Now, through the use of modern nanotechnological tools, it is possible to touch, feel and push on cells.

And more importantly, let them push on us.  What can we learn about the physiology of a cell just by the way it moves or the way it sounds?  Current research in nanotechnology is likely to have a great impact on medicine through the wide-ranging and diverse concepts being developed today.

Cutting edge techniques are revealing that one day it may be become possible to detect and perhaps correct disease by feeling and changing the nanomechnical environment of a cell.  In this talk I will discuss the development of nanobioscience, current research taking place at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, and how this science is breaking traditional academic boundaries in both the sciences and the arts.

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