'Gold' fish thrive, cancers die

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 09:07 in Physics & Chemistry

Rice University physicist Dmitri Lapotko has demonstrated that plasmonic nanobubbles, generated around gold nanoparticles with a laser pulse, can detect and destroy cancer cells in vivo by creating tiny, shiny vapour bubbles that reveal the cells and selectively explode them...

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