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Trojan horses for immunotherapy

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Fig. 1: Trojan attack.

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Hubbell, J.A., Swartz, M.A. Trojan horses for immunotherapy. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 196–197 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0380-7

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