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Nanotechnology tackles tumours

Single-walled carbon nanotubes can now effectively target tumours in mice, which suggests that nanotubes could form the basis of a safe drug-delivery system for cancer therapy.

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Figure 1: Targeting tumours with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs).

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Liu, Y., Wang, H. Nanotechnology tackles tumours. Nature Nanotech 2, 20–21 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2006.188

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