Gold nanoparticles applications: from artificial enzyme till drug delivery

Abstract

Today, nano-medicine promotes new therapeutics and diagnostics tools, including sensing of biomolecules as a biosensor, cancer chemotherapy and drug or gene delivery. Because of small size and biocompatibility of gold nanoparticles (GNPs), they become a good candidate for biological application. Also, thanks to their biological and chemical properties, they can mimic function of some enzymes including super oxide dismutase (SOD), esterase, etc. Also, biomaterials and bioengineering have grown so fast since the last decade for many therapeutic applications such as tissue regeneration. Among these cutting edge technology, nanomaterials find the way to becoming a very powerful tool for using in many fields of researchers including biosensing, gene therapy and chemotherapy. In this review, we focused on some biological applications of GNPs in biology and medicine.