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Tracking nanoparticles inside cells

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Statistical analysis of nanoparticle delivery shows that cells take up nanoparticles randomly and redistribute them to their daughter cells in a biased way.

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Figure 1: Delivery of quantum dots from solution into cells.

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  1. Haruhisa Kato is in the Polymer Standards Section Japan (PSSJ), National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5, Higashi 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8565 Japan.,

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