Gold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 13:42 in Physics & Chemistry

Gold is valuable to many in copious quantities, but for a team of Duke University scientists, a sub-cellular amount was all that was needed to create a nanostructure which could potentially act as a tiny biological sensor. One which could penetrate individual cells and report back on a cell’s inner workings in real time. read more

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