Contact: Twig Mowatt
twig.mowatt@wyss.harvard.edu
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Shear-Activated Nanotherapeutic Clears Obstruction

Caption: A blood clot within a mouse artery disappears following the injection of a clot-busting, shear-activated nanotherapeutic. The bright areas are fluorescent-labeled platelets.

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