Figure 7.

The ideological duality for the application of cellular biomineralization of GNPs. Cells as Nanoparticle Factories, wherein patient's cells are 1) cultured from biopsy and 2) used as bioreactors to create personalized biomimetic nanoparticles in order to 3) reapply to the patient; and in situ Nanomedicine, wherein 1) ionic gold is applied directly to the pathological tissue, 2) resulting in the formation of nanoparticles within that tissue 3), enabling imaging or a therapeutic treatment such as fluorescence or photothermal ablation respectively.