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  • Developing a biocompatible nanoparticle to visualize lymph nodes

    Aug 15, 2019 11:45 am by Ananya Sen | Graduate Student, MicrobiologyResearch
    Dipanjan Pan, whose lab is interested in the clinical applications of nanotechnology.

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    • Dipanjan Pan, whose lab is interested in the clinical applications of nanotechnology.

    Currently, doctors use  a blue dye to identify where the tumors aggregate lymph nodes, but the dye can cause skin lesions. Illinois researchers are developing a biocompatible nanoparticle with no toxic side effects.