Sentences with phrase «uses gold nanoparticles»

Lee and his colleagues at GenEdit already have a few scientific studies under review, including one that uses gold nanoparticles as a core material to load the three components of the CRISPR system.
The technique, described in Biomaterials, uses gold nanoparticles and Raman scattering, a technology previously developed by Qian and Nie for cancer cell detection (2007 Nature Biotech paper, 2011 Cancer Research paper on circulating tumor cells).
A landmark experiment on wave interference from the early 1800s is revisited using gold nanoparticles.
The work used gold nanoparticles and titanium dioxide as a catalyst to speed the process and determined that water serves as a co-catalyst for the reaction that transforms carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide.
Researchers report that they can boost the amount of data stored on a disc 10,000-fold by using gold nanoparticles.
«Good as gold: Researchers use gold nanoparticles to enhance the accuracy of biomedical tests, thereby eliminating false positive results.»
A new blood test using gold nanoparticles could soon give oncologists an early and more accurate prognosis of how cancer treatment is progressing and help guide the on - going therapy of patients.
A new blood test using gold nanoparticles could soon give oncologists an early and more accurate prognosis of how cancer treatment is progressing and help guide the ongoing therapy of patients.
«We used gold nanoparticles as the core of our nanocomplex,» explains team member Zhe Wang of the School of Life Sciences and Technology at Xidian University and the National Institutes of Health.
Plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) using gold nanoparticles.

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The researchers used an ultrastable, variable - temperature stage in an aberration - corrected scanning transmission electron microscope to subject an array of size - selected gold nanoparticles (or clusters) to temperatures as high as 500 °C while imaging them with atomic resolution.
That material attracts water - soluble metal precursors, which use the space within the polymer hairs as nano - reactors to form gold nanoparticles.
«We envision that these photo - responsive polymer - capped gold nanoparticles could one day serve as nano - carriers for drug delivery into the body using our robust and reversible process for assembly and disassembly,» said Zhiqun Lin, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering.
The catalyst was synthesized from chloroauric acid using glutathione as a capping agent to prevent nanoparticle aggregation, resulting the formation of small size of gold nanoparticles.
A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.
The miR - 182 was safely delivered to the tumors using spherical nucleic acids, DNA and RNA arranged around a gold nanoparticle center.
That revolution in medical diagnostics could be made possible by products like the Verigene system, which uses DNA - coated gold nanoparticles to identify telltale proteins and important genes.
Shikuan Yang explained: «First we need to use noble metal nanoparticles, like gold.
The researchers developed a small, breath - diagnostic array based on flexible gold - nanoparticle sensors for use in an «electronic nose.»
Clever use of a microscopic resonator can quickly measure the masses of proteins and gold nanoparticles.
To use this motion - sensing technique in a practical device, Aksyuk and Roxworthy embedded the gold nanoparticle in a microscopic - scale mechanical structure — a vibrating cantilever, sort of a miniature diving board — that was a few micrometers long, made of silicon nitride.
An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles and nanowires using water droplets.
So far, Roukes has used this system to measure the masses of gold nanoparticles and three proteins found in the blood serum of cows.
A multidisciplinary team at the Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES, CNRS), working in collaboration with physicists in Singapore and chemists in Bristol (UK), have shown that crystalline gold nanoparticles aligned and then fused into long chains can be used to confine light energy down to the nanometer scale while allowing its long - range propagation.
New technique detects target DNA (here, anthrax) by using it to link fixed strands with «probe» strands attached to current - carrying gold nanoparticles.
Researchers in Japan have shown that modified gold nanoparticles can be used to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone.
A team headed by Yen Hsun Su of the Research Center for Applied Sciences at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, dipped Bacopa caroliniana, a plant often used in aquaria, into a solution of gold nanoparticles.
A new method for building «drawbridges» between metal nanoparticles may allow electronics makers to build full - color displays using light - scattering nanoparticles that are similar to the gold materials that medieval artisans used to create red stained - glass.
To demonstrate the method, Landes and study lead author Chad Byers, a graduate student in her lab, anchored pairs of gold nanoparticles to a glass surface covered with indium tin oxide (ITO), the same conductor that's used in many smartphone screens.
However, many live - animal tests and human clinical trials have already been completed using formulations of gold nanoparticles without serious side effects.
Light can be used to activate normal, non-genetically modified neurons through the use of targeted gold nanoparticles, report scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In a Berkeley Lab - led study, flexible double - helix DNA segments connected to gold nanoparticles are revealed from the 3 - D density maps (purple and yellow) reconstructed from individual samples using a Berkeley Lab - developed technique called individual - particle electron tomography or IPET.
Using spatially and temporally resolved fluorescence imaging of individual catalytic reactions within single nanoscale catalysts (in this case nanoparticles of gold and palladium), Chen and colleagues found that this was indeed the case.
In vitro cancer cell imaging and therapy using transferrin - conjugated gold nanoparticles.
March 12, 2015 Optogenetics without the genetics Light can be used to activate normal, non-genetically modified neurons through the use of targeted gold nanoparticles, report scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
There's gold in them thar nanoparticles: a team of researchers at the University of Missouri - Columbia has been able to turn soybeans into gold nanoparticles, using nothing more than gold salts, water and soybeans.
The use of their newly developed composite of black phosphorous, gold nanoparticles, and titanate lanthamum as a photocatalyst, the researchers commented, has made it possible to produce hydrogen from water and broadband sunlight, an innovation they expect will contribute significantly to solving environmental issues.
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