A cell-targeting peptide can be assembled into well-defined nanoparticles with different shapes and sizes depending on the number of branches present in the hydrocarbon chain it is attached to.
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Gazit, E. Bioactive nanostructures branch out. Nature Nanotech 3, 8–9 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2007.435
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