Selective light-triggered release of DNA from gold nanorods switches blood clotting on and off.

Blood clotting is a precise cascade engineered to form a clot with temporal and spatial control. Current control of blood clotting is achieved predominantly by anticoagulants and thus inherently one-sided. Here we use a pair of nanorods (NRs) to provide a two-way switch for the blood clotting cascad...

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Main Authors: Helena de Puig, Anna Cifuentes Rius, Dorma Flemister, Salmaan H Baxamusa, Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3722233?pdf=render