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Want to Find What's Ailing You? Swallow Diamonds!
The researchers have developed nanodiamonds that, when swallowed, harmlessly coat the digestive track.
When coated with special sugars or proteins, the nanodiamonds are absorbed into the body and attach themselves to specific cells.
The study, which is currently limited to animals, could eventually diagnose and eventually treat diseases in humans.
"This research work demonstrates that nanodiamonds are non-toxic in both cellular and organismic levels," Discovery News quoted Yi-Chun Wu, a co-author of the study, as saying.
The nanodiamonds the scientists from Taiwan used absorb yellow light and emit violet light.
Next, the scientists fed two types of nanodiamonds to the round worm C. elegans.
The first batch of nanodiamonds were uncoated, just pure carbon with a few nitrogen atoms. Those nanodiamonds coated the digestive tract of the transparent roundworm.
The second batch of nanodiaonds the roundworms ate were coated with a special sugar. Once inside the roundworm, the nanodiamonds passed through the digestive tract and into the body of the worm, congregating at various points inside the body.
Both the coated and uncoated nanodiamonds glowed purple when yellow light was shined onto the roundworms, revealing their location inside the worm.
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