Contenidos:Artificial cells : the beginning of nanomedicine / Thomas Ming Swi Chang -- The clinical development of hemopure(r) : a selective commentary / A. Gerson Greenburg -- Glutaraldehyde polymerized porcine hemoglobin : preparation, safety evaluation and pharmacodynamics study / Chao Chen, Hongli Zhu and Kunping Yan -- Evidence regarding some pharmacologic characteristics of hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers / Enrico Bucci -- EAF PEG hemoglobins : novel class of nonhypertensive resuscitation fluids : simplicity and advantages of extension arm chemistry for PEGylation / Seetharama A. Acharya, Amy G. Tsai and Marcos Intaglietta -- Biocompatibility of a highly concentrated fluid of hemoglobin-vesicles as a transfusion alternative / Hiromi Sakai -- Molecular basis of haptoglobin and hemoglobin complex formation and protection against oxidative stress and damage / Yiping Jia and Abdu I. Alayash -- Polynitroxylated hemoglobin as a multifunctional therapeutic for critical care and transfusion medicine / Li Ma and Carleton Jen Chang Hsia -- Surface-mediated drug delivery / Benjamin M. Wohl, Betina Fejerskov,Siow-Feng Chong and Alexander N. Zelikin -- Use of tunable pores for accurate characterization of micro- and nanoparticle systems in nanomedicine / James Eldridge, Aaron H. Colby, Geoff R. Willmott, Sam Yu and Mark W. Grinstaff -- Microfluidic probes to process surfaces, cells, and tissues / Mohammad A. Qasaimeh, Sebastien G. Ricoult and David Juncker -- Subcompartmentalized systems toward therapeutic cell mimics / Leticia Hosta-Rigau and Brigitte Stadler -- Soft magnetic nanomaterials towards nanomedicine : magnetism principles, preparation, characterization and potential applications / G. W. Qin, S. Li, Y. P. Ren, F. Darain and K. Dimitrov -- GoldMag composite particles and their applications in nanomedicine / Mingli Peng, Xu Chao, Chao Chen and Yali Cui -- Nanoparticles for imaging and therapy : functionalization, endocytosis and characterization / Yu Zhang, Yi Li, Gurer Budak, Mihrimah Ozkan and Cengiz S. Ozkan -- Noscapines : novel carrier systems to target tumor cells / Ramesh Chandra, J. Madan, Prashant Singh, Pradeep Kumar, V. Tomar, Sujata K. Dass and Ankush Chandra -- High-throughput methods for miniaturization of implantable artificial cells / Maryam Mobed-Miremadi -- Amphiphilic core-shell nanoparticles containing hairy polyethyleneimine shells as effective nanocarriers for gene delivery / Pei Li, Yuen Shan Siu, Kin Man Ho and Wei Li -- Nano-chaperones : nanoparticles acting as artificial chaperones / S. Boridy and D. Maysinger -- Bio-functional polymer vesicles for applications in nanomedicine / Hans-Peter M. de Hoog, Bo Liedberg and Madhavan Nallani -- Carbon nanotubes in cancer and stem cell therapeutics / Wei Shao, Arghya Paul and Satya Prakash -- Chitosan-based nanocarriers for efficient and targeted siRNA delivery / Surendra Nimesh and Ramesh Chandra -- Application of polyethylenimine-based nanoparticles for RNA therapeutics / Surendra Nimesh and Ramesh Chandra -- Nanosilver system technology for applications in nanomedicine / Helmut Schmid.