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Immune attack on nanoparticles

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Changing the configuration of block copolymer coatings with the aim of circumventing the body's defence system instead triggers the immune system differently.

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  1. Robert B. Sim is in the Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3QT, UK bob.sim@pharm.ox.ac.uk,

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  2. Russell Wallis is in the Departments of Biochemistry and of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK. rw73@le.ac.uk,

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Sim, R., Wallis, R. Immune attack on nanoparticles. Nature Nanotech 6, 80–81 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.4

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