Updated May 8, 2018
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Nanoparticles inside cells
Applications - or risks- of nanoparticles depend crucially on the fate of nanoparticles inside cells. We evaluate the evidence.
Editor Raphaël Lévy
Published
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF HELA CELLS AFTER THE INGESTION OF COLLOIDAL GOLD (1957)
C. G. Harford
http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.3.5.749
May 08, 2018 - This amazing 1957 article uses gold nanoparticles as probes to learn about pinocytosis. It includes beautiful electron microscopy images. It concludes that the "membranes [observed in the electron micrographs] support the theory that foreign particles may enter cells by a proc...