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Phage-boosted chemotherapy

Drug-loaded nanoparticles that specifically bind to phages infecting cancer-promoting bacteria found in colonic tumours augment the effects of chemotherapy against colorectal cancer in mice.

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Fig. 1: Phage-targeted microbiota-modulating nanomedicine for treating colorectal cancer in mice.

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Aggarwal, N., Hwang, I.Y. & Chang, M.W. Phage-boosted chemotherapy. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 680–681 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0450-z

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