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Recent theoretical advances are starting to elucidate how natural systems use dissipative self-assembly to build their complex nanomachinery and might point to ways in which the same principles can be exploited to fabricate analogous artificial nanoassemblies.
This Progress Article reviews recent developments in analytical methods used for nanomaterial analysis and highlights opportunities for methods used in environmental toxicology to be applied in human toxicology and vice versa.
This Perspective reviews the molecular, cellular and organismal response pathways that nucleic acid nanodevices are likely to interact with when deployed in living systems, and outlines ways to design nanodevices that either evade or react to the host response.
