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Nanoparticle assembly

Building blocks for tumour delivery

Nature Nanotechnology volume 9, pages 93–94 (2014)Cite this article

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Supramolecular structures composed of inorganic nanoparticles and DNA strands can efficiently target tumours and then be disassembled for ease of elimination from the body.

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Figure 1: The delivery and clearance of nanoassemblies.

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  1. Hak Soo Choi is at the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA,

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