What are magnetic nanoparticles and how can they be used in medicine? Oregon State Associate Professor Pallavi Dhagat and graduate student Phil Lenox explain the very sensitive techniques they are developing using magnetic nanoparticles to detect a biomarker for disease in just a drop of blood or look deep inside the human body.

BONUS MATERIALS

• Oregon State Applied Magnetics Laboratory
• Micro-scale Magnetic Particle Imaging Scanner video

https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/season-3-environmental-and-human-health/magnetic-materials-medicine-s3e4