Smithsonian Magazine
How Doctors Are Harnessing the Power of Gold to Fight Cancer
February 2014
Magazine article: “Gold’s immortality—the fact that it doesn’t interact with most compounds and thus doesn’t corrode—makes it essentially nontoxic to the body. This characteristic gives it huge potential value in medicine, for mundane procedures like dental fillings and, in the era of nanotechnology, for diagnosing and treating deadly diseases.”
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