What happens to magnetic nanoparticles once in cells?

Date 14th, Feb 2019
Source ScienceDaily - General News Websites

DESCRIPTION

Although magnetic nanoparticles are being used more and more in cell imaging and tissue bioengineering, what happens to them within stem cells in the long term remained undocumented. Researchers have shown substantial degradation of these nanoparticles, followed in certain cases by the cells ''re-magnetizing.'' This phenomenon is the sign of biosynthesis of new magnetic nanoparticles from iron released in the intracellular medium by the degradation of the first nanoparticles.