Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Nanoparticles + light = dead tumor cells

Medical physicists at the University of Virginia have created a novel way to kill tumor cells using nanoparticles and light. Quantum dots are semiconductor nanostructures, 25 billionths of a meter in diameter, which can confine electrons in three dimensions and emit light when exposed to ultraviolet radiation.

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