The words of Richard Schwartz, “The impact of nanotechnology is
expected to exceed the impact that the electronics revolution has had on
our lives,” aptly describe the towering repercussions that nanotechnology
has in our lives today. Nanotechnology refers to the engineering and
manufacture of functional systems at atomic and molecular scales. It
offers unprecedented opportunities to creatematerials and devices sized
between 1 and 100 nm with a plethora of applications in medicine,
electronics, biomaterials and energy production. Nanotechnology has an
incredible capability for revolutionizing medical therapeutics and diagnostics
under the premise of developing ingenious nanodevices. Since the
first Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. Gerd Binning from Germany and Dr.
Heinrich Roher from Switzerland in 1986 in the field of nanotechnology,
for discovering the first Scanning Tunnel microscope, this technology
now appears to invade almost all dominions of life sciences including
stem cell medicine (1). Scanning microscopy is now being successfully
used to visualize and identify embryonic stem cell-derived beating
cardiomyocytes among a mixture of various cell types (2).