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Rerouting nanoparticles to bone marrow via neutrophil hitchhiking

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Drug delivery to the bone marrow has limited efficiency, hitchhiking on bone marrow homing neutrophils offers a solution.

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Fig. 1: Rerouting nanoparticles to bone marrow via neutrophil hitchhicking.

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Gong, N., Mitchell, M.J. Rerouting nanoparticles to bone marrow via neutrophil hitchhiking. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 548–549 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01373-8

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