To
study nanodiamonds» usefulness for cancer treatment, Ho's group attached them to doxorubicin, a standard chemotherapy drug, and injected them into mice with drug - resistant breast and liver cancer.
Not exact matches
The findings will likely guide future
studies not only on the potential of
nanodiamonds in drug delivery but also on fighting bacteria and treating viral diseases.
Researchers have demonstrated how to control the «electron spin» of a
nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers in a vacuum, an advance that could find applications in quantum information processing, sensors and
studies into the fundamental physics of quantum mechanics.
The
nanodiamond thermometers also have potential uses in chemistry to monitor how heat flows affect chemical reactions, especially at the interface between two substances, says David Awschalom, a physicist at the University of California in Santa Barbara, who led one of the earlier
studies demonstrating diamond - based thermometry.