Contents :Biological applications of multifunctional magnetic nanowires / Edward J. Felton and Daniel H. Reich -- Nucleic acid delivery and localizing delivery with magnetic nanoparticles / Christian Plank ... [et al.] -- Magnetic nanoparticles in cancer diagnosis and hyperthermic treatment / Robert H. Kraus, Jr. and Bradford Wright -- Brownian motion in biological sensing / Axel Hoffmann ... [et al.] -- Dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers for drug delivery / Rangaramanujam M. Kannan, Omathanu P. Perumal, and Sujatha Kannan -- Nanogels : chemistry to drug delivery / Murali Mohan Yallapu, Maram K. Reddy, and Vinod Labhasetwar -- Targeted gold nanoparticles for imaging and therapy / Raghuraman Kannan and Kattesh V. Katti -- Building blocks of nucleic acid nanostructures : unfolding thermodynamics of intramolecular DNA complexes / Luis A. Marky ... [et al.] -- Nanotoxicology / Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky.