Tuesday, 3rd May 2005 (4107 views)

Scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) are making nanoscience discoveries that experts are claiming are ten years ahead of expectations.

Now a new Nanoparticle Production Core Facility (NPCF) has been built at the university helping to provide an endless supply of gold and silver nanoparticles.

The centre supplies metallic nanoparticles in a host of various sizes or they can also be created exactly to a researcher's specification, according to PhysOrg.

Kattesh Katti, professor of radiology and biomedical physics at the university, said: "This production facility is a unique resource for MU and the state of Missouri moving both forward into the field of nanomedicine.

"A $5 million grant recently was submitted to the National Institute of Health to establish a major multi-faculty cancer and nanotechnology platform at MU."

Nanoparticles are at the centre of future research and discovery in technology, science and medicine.

The centre is the first of its kind to open and has already helped to boost results for scientists with the "development of a number of new nanoscience research projects and submission of several research grants" only possible due to the nanoparticle availability.

Research into cancer imaging and therapy, which depends on direct applications of gold nanoparticles is now being conducted.

Gold nanoparticles have to be created especially for medical applications in a patented process and MU is looking into using them to detect cancer, even at a pre-cancerous stage.

 

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