The nanomedicine. Regulatory framework and legal challenges

Abstract

Nanotechnology has come to change our society. Its multidisciplinary nature will allow the redesign of study areas such as robotics, biology and medicine. In its application to the health field, nanoscience has formed a new area of research, nanomedicine, with possibilities and utilities that will substantially modify the mechanisms of diagnosis and care treatment: giving a new impetus to personalized medicine; developing numerous regenerative medicine tools; taking advantage of the new properties that nanoparticles provide; And a long etcetera. However, any new technology poses significant challenges. From the legal sciences, the complex challenge of regulating such a novel, complex and broad subject as nanoscience must be faced.