Contact: Kim McDonald
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University of California - San Diego

Ji-Ho Park, University of California - San Diego

Caption: UCSD graduate student Ji-Ho Park holds a vial containing the nanometer-sized cargo ships, composed of a magnetic nanoparticle, a fluorescent quantum dot and an anti-cancer drug molecule that will be left on the site of the tumor.

Credit: Luo Gu, UCSD

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