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Published online 2 May 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.801
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'Raft' offers route for drug treatments
Therapeutics could hitch a ride on cellular machinery.
German scientists have hijacked one of the cell’s own mechanisms to deliver a potential Alzheimer’s drug directly to where it is needed.
In so doing they have turned an obscure area of cell-biology research into one that could have wide applications in drug delivery.
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