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Published online 31 March 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000406-2
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Drug smuggling in a waterproof coat
How do you stop a molecule getting dry? With an umbrella, of course, explains Philip Ball.
Chemists in Pennsylvania are inventing a new way of smuggling drugs. But with the best of intentions: they are trying to carry them into cells, where the drugs can exert their therapeutic effect.
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