NIST Updates ‘Sweet’ 1950s Separation Method to Clean Nanoparticles from Organisms | NIST

NIST Updates ‘Sweet’ 1950s Separation Method to Clean Nanoparticles from Organisms | NIST

NIST Updates ‘Sweet’ 1950s Separation Method to Clean Nanoparticles from Organisms

Giving a 65-year-old laboratory technique a new role, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have performed the cleanest separation to date of synthetic nanoparticles from a living organism. The new NIST method is expected to significantly improve experiments looking at the potential environmental and health impacts of these manufactured entities. It will allow scientists to more accurately count how many nanoparticles have actually been ingested by organisms exposed to them.

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