Sonia Contera is professor of biological physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford and one of today's leading nanotech pioneers. She lives in Oxford, England. Twitter @SONIACONTERA
[The photographic section] is truly striking with its visual illustration of laying down single atomic designs and smart insulin-releasing patches containing microneedles. ---Simon Cocking, Irish Tech News [A] succinct study . . . Contera frames this near-future transmaterial science, with its focus on human well-being, as an effort allied to social justice even as it probes existential questions of what it means to be human. ---Barbara Kiser, Nature This is a readable although necessarily technical introduction to the way that physics is coming to biology. ---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer Nano Comes to Life draws on author Sonia Contera's adventures in molecular-scale engineering to herald the coming of age of nanotechnology, and its promise to re-engineer tissue and transform lives. * New Scientist *