Electromagnetism, Nanotechnologies and Biology: New Challenges and Opportunities

This paper reviews the possibilities offered by the advent of nanotechnology for regulating the interaction between electromagnetic fields and bio-systems with unprecedented flexibility and specificity. In particular, we discuss how the exploitation of magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic fields can lead to significant advances in clinical and diagnostic applications, and to the opening of a completely new scenario: the true remote control of nanomachines and biological systems.