World’s Most Precious Metal Now Used to Diagnose Disease

World’s Most Precious Metal Now Used to Diagnose Disease

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A startling health breakthrough from Canada could set the stage for a new way to diagnose serious diseases. This could be a nice step in the direction of making simple, portable diagnostic devices. This could be quite useful in areas of the world where heading to the hospital for an MRI is not realistic.

The researchers are studying gold nanoparticles—doses that are extremely small. They are attempting to customize those gold particles to illuminate cancer cells so the tumors would come to light for an easy diagnosis. One day, the particles could be used to deliver drugs to fight the tumors.

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