Gold Nanoparticles in Cell Cytosol
| Title: | Gold Nanoparticles in Cell Cytosol |
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| Description: |
Gold nanoparticles have many properties that make them exciting objects of study in cancer research. For example, they are nontoxic, can carry a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic agents, and are small enough to reach targets in the body that other delivery systems can’t. This dark-field image shows the delivery of gold nanoparticles (yellow dots) into the cytosol of a cancer cell. This image is part of the following collections: NCI Cancer Close Up 2017 Nanotechnology Image Library |
| Topics/Categories: | Science and Technology -- Nanotechnology |
| Type: | Color, Photo |
| Source: | National Cancer Institute \ M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; Rice University |
| Creator: | Veronika Sapozhnikova, Konstantin Sokolov, Rebecca Richards-Kortum |
| Date Created: | March 2014 |
| Date Added: | March 20, 2017 |
| Reuse Restrictions: | None - This image is in the public domain and can be freely reused. Please credit the source and, where possible, the creator listed above. |