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Making Strides: In Vivo Nanoparticle Detection Technology

Posted on October 03, 2008

Technology to detect the presence of nanoparticles injected into a patient for clinical purposes is being licensed by the University of Texas at Austin to a local company nanoTox Inc., which plans to develop the knowledge into a real diagnostic product.From the University of Texas press release: The technology comes from the laboratory of Dr. James Tunnell, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering. Tunnell's lab focuses on developing minimally invasive optical technologies for the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease, pa...

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