Researchers find nanoscale crystals can enter your body through cuts in the skin.
By Seth FletcherPosted 07.03.2008 at 11:31 am3 Comments
Health risks for the 21st century worker keep getting weirder. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that quantum dots—nanoparticles made of semiconducting crystals that emit light when stimulated at certain wavelengths—can penetrate skin through abrasions.