Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles: A Potential Targeted Delivery Vector for Reproductive Biology?

Abstract

Over the last decade, biomedical nanotechnology has revolutionized existing approaches for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a variety of medical conditions, including cancer, microbial and viral infections, and chronic internal diseases. This innovative approach has also given rise to a number of sensitive tools to investigate the specific mechanisms underlying these conditions. Accumulation of evidence for the improved performance of nanomaterial-based techniques over conventional research and therapeutic approaches will inevitably promote the rapid dissemination of nanobiotechnological ‘vision’ to a growing number of research and clinical disciplines, including reproductive biology, which has until recently received only scant attention.