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Living Nano-factories: An Eco-friendly Approach Towards Medicine and Environment

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Progress in the area of nano-biotechnology has been resulted in the synthesis and modulation of nanomaterials, which have been globally used in the fields of agricultural, biomedicine, environment, and optics. However, various physiochemical procedures employed to synthesize metal nanoparticles (MNPs) are costly and bring about biosphere pollution due to the heavy metals. Biogenic synthesis of MNPs hold enormous potential as sustainable, green, cost-effective, and eco-friendly tool that does not require toxins, harsh chemicals, and input of high energy which are essentially required for physiochemical synthesis. Thus living systems can be used as convenient and sustainable nano-factories. Many plants and microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes, yeast, virus, algae, and human cell lines have been explored for their ability to synthesize MNPs. Recently, considerable attention is given to engineered nanomaterials which can be further used for the development of diagnostic modalities and novel therapeutics for mankind. This chapter is based on living organisms and mechanisms involved in biogenic green synthesis of MNPs and their potential implication in the field of biomedicine present scenario and future prospects.

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Gupta, M., Seema, K. (2021). Living Nano-factories: An Eco-friendly Approach Towards Medicine and Environment. In: Pal, K. (eds) Bio-manufactured Nanomaterials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67223-2_6

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