Successful drug development has a significant impact
on people’s quality of life worldwide. Being able to track how
molecules get into target cells, and observing what they do when
they are inside, is key to identifying the best candidates.
Analysis techniques therefore form an important part of the drug
discovery process. Researchers from Osaka University, in
collaboration with RIKEN, have reported a Raman microscopy-based
approach for visualizing small-molecule drugs that uses gold
nanoparticles. The team’s findings are published in ACS
Nano.
