{"id":19515,"date":"2015-11-23T01:47:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/electric-fields-remove-nanoparticles-from-blood-with-ease"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:07","slug":"electric-fields-remove-nanoparticles-from-blood-with-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/electric-fields-remove-nanoparticles-from-blood-with-ease","title":{"rendered":"Electric fields remove nanoparticles from blood with ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-fields-remove-nanoparticles-from-blood-with-ease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at the University of California, San Diego developed a new technology that uses an oscillating electric field to easily and quickly isolate drug-delivery nanoparticles from blood. The technology could serve as a general tool to separate and recover nanoparticles from other complex fluids for medical, environmental, and industrial applications.<\/p>\n<p>Nanoparticles, which are generally one thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, are difficult to separate from plasma, the liquid component of blood, due to their small size and low density. Traditional methods to remove <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\">nanoparticles<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasma+samples\/\" rel=\"tag\">plasma samples<\/a> typically involve diluting the plasma, adding a high concentration sugar solution to the plasma and spinning it in a centrifuge, or attaching a targeting agent to the surface of the nanoparticles. These methods either alter the normal behavior of the nanoparticles or cannot be applied to some of the most common nanoparticle types.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first example of isolating a wide range of nanoparticles out of plasma with a minimum amount of manipulation,\u201d said Stuart Ibsen, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of NanoEngineering at UC San Diego and first author of the study published October in the journal <i>Small<\/i>. \u201cWe\u2019ve designed a very versatile technique that can be used to recover nanoparticles in a lot of different processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-electric-fields-nanoparticles-blood-ease.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at the University of California, San Diego developed a new technology that uses an oscillating electric field to easily and quickly isolate drug-delivery nanoparticles from blood. The technology could serve as a general tool to separate and recover nanoparticles from other complex fluids for medical, environmental, and industrial applications. Nanoparticles, which are generally one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69154,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515\/revisions\/69154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}