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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: thedoc on 21/01/2010 18:19:49

Title: Do cells survive being spiked on silicon nanowires?
Post by: thedoc on 21/01/2010 18:19:49

Scientists have discovered a new way to expose cells to drugs and novel chemicals - spike them on silicon nanowires...

What do you think?  Read the whole story on our  website by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news/news/1880/)

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Post by: Chris on 23/01/2010 23:04:19

That is fascinating; so you could now do things like put prions or other nucleating proteins, in known doses, into cells and see how agggregates begin to form.

Title: Do cells survive being spiked on silicon nanowires?
Post by: CliffordK on 04/12/2010 11:26:12

It sounds like you could put anything in...  you might have troubles visualizing the prions individually inside the cells without killing the cells.

I worked with a neuroscience professor a few years ago that would make micro pipettes filled with saline solution and use them to do intracellular recordings from single neurons. 

I could envision an apparatus that could do intracellular recordings (as well as stimulate them) from a hundred cells at once using these nanowires  :)