Gold Nanoparticles and the Future of Medical Diagnostics Chad Mirkin NANOSPHERE
Gold Nanoparticles and the Future of Medical Diagnostics Chad Mirkin NANOSPHERE
Au and You
Gold Nanoparticles and the Future of Medical Diagnostics Chad Mirkin NANOSPHERE
“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.