Trapping Toxins Using Gold Nanoparticles

Billly Gates writes "British scientists have found a way to quickly and accurately find toxins by binding gold nanoparticles with sugar which then could be dissolved in a solution that changes color when any toxin is found. This procedure could be used in the medical field to find poisons and diseases as well as finding substances in bioterrorist attacks."

Comments

Now it makes more sense...

[Anonymous Coward]

"First you get the sugar & gold nanoparticles, then you get the power, then you get the women".

so...

[Churla]

A spoon full of sugar (/w gold nanoparticles) helps the ricin go down? the ricin go down.. the ricin go down??

(Shameless theft of riff from and apologies to Mary Poppins)