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Caption: Nanospheres in flow are readily captured non-specifically by cells, as imaged in single particle fluorescence (left). In contrast, flexible nanocylinders "go with the flow" and evade such capture (right), allowing the drug-laden filaments to target specific sites of disease.
Credit: Dennis E. Discher, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Nature Nanotechnology
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