Stickiness of gold nanoparticles could be used for producing protein
15 June 2010Gold nanoparticles are tiny spheres of gold in the range of 1 to 100 nanometer and these nanoparticles have become useful in medicines. These nanoparticles have found many useful applications in modern medicine and drug-delivery system is the most common application.
Howeevr, the major disadvantage of gold nanoparticles is that they are sticky and due to their stickiness property, these nanoparticles also stick to many unintended particles and thus making them unsuitable for their designed task. MIT Researchers have now utilized the sticking properties of gold nanoparticles for enhancing in vitro translation. The research finding has recently been published in ACS Nano.
Researchers found that the due to the stickiness of the gold nanoparticles, researchers could produce double the amount of protein in vitro translation. Researcher Kimberly Hamed-Schifferli and her coworker initially set up translation inhibition, for stopping the production of harmful protein with the help of gold nanoparticles expecting that the large nanoparticle-DNA aggregates would block the translation. The research was funded by the Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
Related Posts:
- NIST studies nanoparticle and protein interaction
- Protein stabilized nanoparticles could enhance drug discovery
- Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Cure
- Research on Gold Nanoparticles
- Gold nanoparticles found to eliminate cancer cells
- New nanotechnology based technique used for identifying the protein
- Gold nanoparticles fabricated using new ecofreindly process
- Nanotechnology Enhances Fingerprint Detection
- Application of Gold Nanoparticles in Medical Field
- Nanotechnology and Cleaning Up the Environment
Top Of Page | Trackback
If you found this page useful, consider linking to it. Simply copy and paste the code below into your web site.
It will look like this: Stickiness of gold nanoparticles could be used for producing protein
