Gold-Silica Nanoparticles Tackle Cancer, Counterfeit Money (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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This is a dark field STEM tilt series reconstruction movie showing Raman-active-silica-gold nanoparticles located inside a vesicle within liver tissue. This video relates to an article that appeared in the April 20, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. A.S. Thakor of Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues, was titled, "The Fate and Toxicity of Raman-Active Silica-Gold Nanoparticles in Mice."

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