Electrons love to zip around metals such as copper, especially if the metal is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero. But if they encounter a magnetic atom (say, iron) during their travels, the electrons will try to "screen," or cancel out, the magnetic atom's spin alignment by pairing with it. This pairing modifies the flow of electrons in the metal, in a phenomenon called the Kondo effect.
Azaya Therapeutics has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for Azaya's novel PSL nanotechnology platform. The PSL technology allows for the consistent loading, sizing and stabilizing of active drugs into targeted nanoparticles.
