Gold treatment ‘kills brain parasites’
Gold nanospheres have been successfully used to destroy parasites in the human body, including one that causes cysts in the brain.
Professor Michael Cortie, director of the Institute for Nanoscale Technology at the University of Technology Sydney, told Cosmos magazine that most medical treatments involving gold nanoparticles are focused on cancer and that his research into targeting parasites is the first of its kind in the world.
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