Is Gold Nanotechnology the Key to Fighting Ebola?

August 14, 2014

(Digital Journal) – As the World Health Organization holds crisis meetings to discuss ways to battle the Ebola outbreak, one scientist thinks that one solution for fighting the deadly virus is nanotechnology. The research is being led by Thomas Webster of Northeastern University. In a research note Webster explains: “In nanotechnology we turned our attention to developing nanoparticles that could be attached chemically to the viruses and stop them from spreading.”