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Analyzing results from a PubMed search done at the end of March 2022, more than 550,000 scientific publications relating to “Biotechnology” have been published. At the same time, if searching for “Nanobiotechnology,” it can be seen that more than 7,100 publications have been written in the last 20 years, with an ever-increasing annual publication rate. Nanobiotechnology, a relatively young branch of knowledge, is the crossing point between bio and nano technology, and comprises a wide range of nanotechnological applications in the life sciences field. In the last 2 years, just one hundred years after the last Pandemic Flu, humanity has sadly been hit by one of the worst infectious disease emergences of modern times. We believe that only in conjunction with this terrible health crisis have the real power of what are commonly recognized as Nanobiotechnologies been realized. Since the onset of the pandemic, these technologies have been the subject of heated discussions for scientists, clinicians, journalists, politicians, and ordinary people. For instance, next to the most accredited zoonotic transfer origin of SARS-CoV-2 (Andersen et al., 2020), it was even speculated (Casadevall et al., 2021) to have a nanobiotechnological origin in one of the biosafety level-4 biological laboratories of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although there is still no way to reach unquestionable conclusions on the origins of this pandemic, allowing us to establish how much was due to chance, nature, or to the fast development of human technologies, in this opinionwe will prove howmuch nanobiotechnology is doing in assisting the whole scientific community in quickly and effectively resolving this global health crisis. We want to highlight how much nanobiotechnology is contributing in such a short time with nanomaterials and technology to the development of safe and efficient solutions to prevent, diagnose, and treat COVID-19 and any infections of the same nature.