{"id":7299,"date":"2022-11-04T01:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2025-03-28T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:54:08","slug":"cordy-gold-nanoparticles-cor-aunps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cordy-gold-nanoparticles-cor-aunps\/","title":{"rendered":"Cordy gold nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Cordy gold nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cordy gold nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs)<\/strong>\u00a0is the outcome of a collaborative experiment by scientists from four Indian institutions, has earned an international patent from Germany.<\/li>\n<li>These nanoparticles, derived from the synthesis of the extracts of\u00a0Cordyceps militaris\u00a0and gold salts, could make drug delivery in the human body faster and surer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cordyceps militaris<\/strong>is a high value parasitic fungus, lab-grown at the Department of Biotechnology\u2019s Technology Incubation Centre (TIC) in Bodoland University, one of the collaborators of the patented research work.<\/li>\n<li>Gold salts are ionic chemical compounds of gold generally used in medicine.<\/li>\n<li>Wild Cordyceps mushroom is found in the\u00a0<strong>eastern Himalayan belt.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Penetration:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Penetration in the cells is more when the drug particles are smaller.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Cordyceps militaris, called super mushroom because of its tremendous medicinal properties, adds bioactive components to the synthesis of gold nanoparticles for better penetration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GAOAFJAHI.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are derived from the synthesis of the extracts of Cordyceps Mlitaris and Gold Salts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}