Image of the Month

Scanning electron microscope image of a fixed glioblastoma cell (light green) and gold nanostars (yellow) on glass (dark blue). The gold nanostars’ size-related properties enable their application for biosensing, drug delivery, and photothermal cancer therapy.

By: Gail Vinnacombe, Leonardo Scarabelli, and Naihao Chiang, laboratories of Profs. Paul S. Weiss and Steven Jonas.