Rice University study validates low-cost, high-throughput
technology
The lowly roundworm is the star of an ambitious Rice
University project to measure the toxicity of nanoparticles.
The low-cost, high-throughput study by Rice scientists
Weiwei Zhong and Qilin Li measures the effects of many types of nanoparticles
not only on individual organisms but also on entire populations.
The Rice researchers tested 20 types of nanoparticles and
determined that five, including the carbon-60 molecules (“buckyballs”)
discovered at Rice in 1985, showed little to no toxicity.