Medical Applications

    Coat with drugs, antibodies, peptides, or oligonucleotides

    Use magnetic fields to position
    • Deliver drugs to targets (especially for chemotherapy)
    • "Tag and drag" removal (especially for toxins)

    Recognize and label target
    • Detect by MRI even in deep tissues (especially for cancer cells)
    • Detect by GMR for lab on a chip (like reading a hard disk)


Paula Gould, “Nanoparticles Probe Biosystems,” Materials Today, Feb 2004, pages 36-43.