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Using Gold Nanoparticles for Bacterial Detection

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Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Physics

Audience: High School

Students will create gold nanoparticls (GNPs) and learn the potential disease detection uses of GNPs, conduct research on modifying GNPs to be specific to other molecules, and complete a simulation using GNP assay tests to detect a simulated meningitis (Neisseria meningitides) outbreak in the class.

 

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