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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

  1. 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


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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