Dr. Gunjan Bisht Thapa, Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, with Mr. Sagar Rayamajhi student of Department of Biotechnology published a review article entitled “ZnO Nanoparticles: A Promising Anticancer Agent” in Journal of Nanobiomedicine (Intech Open), doi:  10.5772/63437.

This review has mainly focused on ZnO NPs, the relation between zinc and cancer, zinc’s role in the human body and the probable mechanism surrounding ZnO NPs with the biology of the human body, leading to its selective localization and cytotoxicity towards cancer cells.

The paper is available at the given link: http://www.intechopen.com/journals/nanobiomedicine/zno-nanoparticles-a-promising-anticancer-agent