Gold ‘nano-bullets’ shoot down tumours

November 5, 2003 | Source: New Scientist

Gold “nano-bullets” — tiny silica particles plated with gold and heated with near-infrared light — could seek and destroy inoperable human cancers, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“We believe that we should also be able to treat very small metastases, not detected yet,” said Jennifer West, who led the study at Rice University,