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Gold cluster-labelled antibodies

The Fab' fragments of antibodies can be combined with eleven gold-atom clusters to produce the smallest gold-conjugated antibody probes yet developed.

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Hainfeld, J. Gold cluster-labelled antibodies. Nature 333, 281–282 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/333281a0

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