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PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 27, 2008 -- The smallest magnetic nanoparticles created to date can be sent on such seek-and-find missions for tumor cells and emit signals MRI scans can detect. Brown University chemist Shouheng Sun and a team of researchers have created peptide-coated iron oxide nanoparticles, billionths of a meter "big." They injected the particles into mice and tested their ability to locate a brain tumor cell called U87MG. The team concentrated on the nanoparticles' size and the thickness of the peptide coating, which ensures the nanoparticle attaches to the tumor cell. (With a thinner coating, the...Read full article

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    Published: May 2008
    Glossary
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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