Nanocrystal-peptide conjugates for imaging nuclei: Nanobiotechnology

✍ Scribed by Mark Telford

• Book ID: 104417188
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1369-7021
• DOI: 10.1016/s1369-7021(04)00610-8

✦ Synopsis

University of Florida researchers have used antibody-conjugated silica nanoparticles in a fluorescence-based immunoassay to develop a fast and ultrasensitive, nonisotopic method for in situ pathogen quantification down to a single bacterium without amplification or enrichment [Zhao et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2004) 101, 15027]. Applications include food safety, drug delivery, early detection of disease and