Harry Potter fans, take note: Northwestern researchers have discovered how to build structures on surfaces out of gold nanoparticles and DNA, which could lay the groundwork for devices akin to Harry’s ...

Gold nanorods are one of the most extensively studied nanomaterials and are beginning to be used in nanomedicine in applications such as cancer treatments and diagnostics. They are thought to be ...

Using DNA, the blueprint of life, U.S. researchers said they have made a three-dimensional structure from particles of gold in a development that could lead to a host of custom-designed materials. The ...

If you were to ask any historian what their favorite time period is, you’d likely get some “high fluting” answer about revolutions in France or eras of social/political upheavals. If you were to ask ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel method to enhance the precision of cancer treatment using gold nanoparticles tagged with DNA ...

Researchers have discovered a curious difference between the DNA from cancer cells and that from healthy cells, and this finding could lead to a new blood test for cancer. The difference? Cancer DNA ...

Folk belief says there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but a new technology is turning that idea on its head – using particles of gold to make colours. With further work, the method ...

Using DNA structures as scaffolds, scientists hae shown that precisely positioned gold nanoparticles can serve as efficient energy transmitters. Using DNA structures as scaffolds, Tim Liedl, a ...