Using chiral gold nanoparticles to enhance immune response

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China, the U.S. and Brazil has used "handedness" in chiral gold nanoparticles to enhance immune response to the influenza virus in mice. The group describes their work in the journal Nature. Alexander Hooftman and Luke A. J. O'Neill have published a News and Views piece describing the work done by the team on this new effort in the same journal issue.