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Nanotechnology can be Nanomedicine
IBM wants to go a step beyond traditional antibiotics to treat infectious diseases by using nanotechnology from the semiconductor industry. Researchers announced that they have figured out how to fashion polymers made out of nanomaterials that have a magnetic attraction to infected cells. This marks the first time that researchers have been able to develop a polymer out of nanomaterials that is both biocompatible and biodegradable, which means it can be used in the body to go after, find, and kill nasty microorganisms.