Fighting Pain with Gold Nanorods

September 30, 2015

(MD Magazine) – Japanese researchers from the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Kyoto University have developed a novel technique that could lead to therapies for pain relief in patients with intractable pain, possibly including cancer-related pain. The technique uses gold nanorods—tiny rods that are 1-100 nanometers wide and long—to target pain receptors.