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  • noun A hollow nanoparticle

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Examples

  • The tumors of nanocage-injected mice were significantly fainter on the PET scans than those of buffer-injected mice, indicating that many tumor cells were no longer functioning.

    D Mag - News 2010

  • In the nanocage-injected mice, the skin surface temperature increased rapidly from 32 degrees Celsius to 54 degrees C (129 degrees F).

    D Mag - News 2010

  • "One gold nanocage absorbs as much light as a million melanin molecules," says Xia.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The tumors in the nanocage-treated mice were later found to have marked histological signs of cellular damage.

    D Mag - News 2010

  • But the important achievement, from the point of view of cancer patients, is that any nanocage treatment would be narrowly targeted and thus avoid the side effects patients dread.

    D Mag - News 2010

  • "One gold nanocage absorbs as much light as a million melanin molecules," says Xia.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Shaped like a spherical nanocage, ferritin is made up of 24 proteins, and it sequesters the reactive iron ions in its hollow interior.

    Nano Tech Wire 2010

  • "We systematically analyzed the interactions between the 24 ferritin units that make up the nanocage and identified the hot spots that are crucial to the cage's formation."

    Nano Tech Wire 2010

  • Understanding the assembly of the nanocage could open the door to drug design that will disrupt the structure and function of defective proteins that cause or contribute to disease.

    Nano Tech Wire 2010

  • Infrared images made while tumors were irradiated with a laser show that in nanocage-injected mice (left), the surface of the tumor quickly became hot enough to kill cells.

    D Mag - News 2010

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