Gold Nanoparticles & The Future of Medical Diagnostics – Chad Mirkin – NANOSPHERE

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“When you arrange DNA in this format [as helical strands attached by-end to points on a nano gold cluster / sphere], you get an interesting property where these types of structures will [freely enter human cells]; whereas linear DNA [will be blocked by the cell wall]. … Once you can get these types of structures inside cells, you now can begin to flip genetic switches [i.e., modify DNA from within the cell]…”

This was already well underway in 2012.