Toxoplasmosis , a common food- and favorite - borne malady linked to hallucinations , personality alteration , and , since it ’s often carried by house pets , the stereotype of the half-baked cat lady , infects around 15 percent of the US universe .
as luck would have it , a newfangled proficiency thattraps the parasite with aureate nanoparticles , and then zaps them with lasers , should help easethe $ 7.7 billionthe disease cost America every year .
The treatment , developed at the University of Technology Sydney , Australia , uses gold nanoparticles that seize to toxoplasmid - hunt antibodies . The gold carrying - antibodies then circularise through the circulatory system , affixing themselves to sponge in the blood .
Once the gold particles are well distributed and widely sequester to the parasite , the optical maser inflame up the Au , incinerating the parasites . According to the investigator , the laser could be tune to the so - call “ tissue paper windowpane ” , a wavelength of Inner Light to which the human body appear transparent . That way , the optical maser can glide by harmlessly through the skin , burn up the sponge along the way .
The researcher do n’t want to just blockade at toxoplasmosis , either . If this proficiency works on one sponge , than malaria , another blood - infecting parasite , should also be susceptible to the same optical maser annihilation .
[ Cosmos Magazine ]
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