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Nanobiotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that covers a vast and diverse array of technologies from engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology. It is expected to have a dramatic infrastructural impact on both nanotechnology and biotechnology. Its applications could potentially be quite diverse, from building faster computers to finding cancerous tumors that are still invisible to the human eye. As nanotechnology moves forward, the development of a ‘nano-toolbox’ appears to be an inevitable outcome. This toolbox will provide new technologies and instruments that will enable molecular manipulation and fabrication via both ‘top-down’ and ‘bottomup’ approaches. This book is organized into five major sections; 1. Introduction, 2. Biotemplating, 3. Bionanoelectronics and Nanocomputing, 4. Nanomedicine, Nanopharmaceuticals and Nanosensing, and 5. De NovoDesigned Structures. Section 1 is an introductory overview on nanobiotechnology, which briefly describes the many aspects of this field, while addressing the reader to relevant sources for broader information overviews. Biological materials can serve as nanotemplates for ‘bottom-up’ fabrication. In fact, this is considered one of the most promising ‘bottom-up’ approaches, mainly due to the nearly infinite types of templates available. This approach is demonstrated in Section 2.