Contact: Kim McDonald
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University of California - San Diego

Nanometer-Sized Cargo Ships Illustration

Caption: The nanometer-sized cargo ships look individually like a chocolate-covered nut cluster, in which a biocompatible lipid forms the chocolate shell and magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots and the drug doxorubicin are the nuts.

Credit: Ji-Ho Park, UCSD

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