Visual Confirmation of Ingested Nanoparticles (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Visual Confirmation of Ingested Nanoparticles

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This is a scanning electron micrograph showing a cross section of the roundworm C. elegans with two ingested engineered nanoparticles (red dots just right of center). Images such as this provided NIST researchers with visual confirmation that nanoparticle consumption actually occurred.

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K. Scott/NIST

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