Silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) provide many possibilities in industrial, commercial, and biomedical fields. However little is known about the toxicological effects of SiNPs in the human. Caixia Guo and colleagues studied the impact of SiNP on the cardiovascular system. They sonicated stock suspensions of 58 nm SiNPs  with the Bioruptor® in order to minimize their aggregation. The best[…]