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University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Gregory Tew, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Caption: Tew and colleagues have found a way not only to get inside naïve T cells, but to deliver bio-active cargo such as proteins and synthetic molecules across that long-locked cell membrane, by using a new synthetic protein transduction domain that mimics natural ones.

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