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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 12 - 13 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.433
Subject Category: Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine: Sizing up targets with nanoparticles
Rod Minchin1
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Rod Minchin is at the Centre for Preclinical Drug Development and the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
e-mail: r.minchin@uq.edu.au
Abstract
Nanoparticles have many potential medical applications but their behaviour in the body is poorly understood. New studies in mice show that particles that don't have targeting molecules attached can selectively enter certain organs solely on the basis of their charge and size.
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