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Targeting headaches and tumors with nano-submarines

New method of transporting drugs published in Nature Nanotechnology JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITAET MAINZ Scientists at the Mainz University Medical Center and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) have developed a new method to enable miniature drug-filled nanocarriers to dock on to immune cells, which in turn attack tumors. In the future, this may...

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For nanomedicine, cell sex matters

Important biological differences between men and women exist – right down to the cellular level. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues at Stanford University, McGill University and University of California, Berkeley wanted to determine if differences between male versus female cells may influence how well cells uptake nanoparticles – a key vehicle for...