Michelle Gibson’s research into earth mining operations, including gold

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A 61-mile long conveyor belt operates in western Africa. Sudan has over 40,000 gold mining operations. The island republic of Nauru was, during the mining heydey of its phosphates, the second-richest nation in the world by GDP per-capita. So much to know.

Gold Nanoparticles Webinar: Strange properties and applications

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Expedeon Published on Jul 22, 2013 Gold nanoparticles exhibit extraordinary properties quite unlike those of the bulk metal. These properties can be exploited in a variety of assay applications, including lateral flow tests, microscopy, flow cytometry and FRET assays. There are also a number of therapeutic applications, especially in the field of cancer. This free … Read more

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.