Tuesday 1 December 2015

Oscillating electric field used to remove nanoparticles from blood


Nanoparticles as a vehicle for delivering drugs precisely where they are needed promise to be a major revolution in medical science. Unfortunately, retrieving those particles from the body for detailed study is a long and involved process. But that may soon change with a team of engineers at the University of California, San Diego developing a technique that uses an oscillating electric field to separate nanoparticles from blood plasma in a way that may one day make it a routine procedure.


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Blood
Nanomedicine
UCSD
Nanoparticles

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