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.
Not exact matches
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.