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. 2016 Nov 8;113(45):12600-12603.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1616895113.

News Feature: Cancer nanomedicine, reengineered

Katherine Bourzac

News Feature: Cancer nanomedicine, reengineered

Katherine Bourzac. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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One experimental nanomedicine approach employs a rat model of glioblastoma in which nanoparticles (red), injected intracranially, are taken up by tumor cells (green). Image courtesy of Eric Song (Yale University, New Haven, CT).
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These confocal laser scanning microscope images show nanoparticles (red) releasing a payload of gene-silencing RNA into cervical cancer cells. Image courtesy of Xia-Ding Xu (Harvard Medical School, Boston).
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