Using Biology to Build Silver Nanoparticles

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Synthetic biologists at Harvard Medical School and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have devised a new, more environmentally sustainable way to produce antimicrobial silver nanoparticles at the mesoscale using biological rather than inorganic chemical methods.

The new technique from the laboratory of Pamela Silver, described in ACS Synthetic Biology, reengineers bacterial capsules to absorb silver ions that form 13- to 15-nanometer-wide spheres of elemental silver under ambient environmental conditions.

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Loved it, good job. Can I ask why do you use E coli instead of other microorganism?

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It's sad that such an important subject as the role of Silver in the body
being presented in a 1 minute 7 second video.

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