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- nationalcancerinstituteGold nanoparticles have properties that make them attractive for use in cancer research. These particles, for example, are not toxic; they can carry a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic agents; and they are #small enough to reach targets in the body that other delivery systems can’t. This dark-field image shows the delivery of gold #nanoparticles (yellow dots) into parts of #cells known as the cytosol.
The image is by Veronika Sapozhnikova and Konstantin Sokolov of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rebecca Richards-Kortum of Rice University. It is available here: https://visualsonline.cancer.gov/details.cfm?imageid=11263
#NCI #NIH #basicresearch #science #cancerresearch #small #nano #nanotechnology @riceuniversity @mdandersoncancercenter #cancercloseup - xomikeygUm ok