Cellular 'Backpacks' Could Treat Disease while Minimizing Side Effects (IMAGE)

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Cellular 'Backpacks' Could Treat Disease while Minimizing Side Effects

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Monocytes -- a kind of white blood cell -- carry drug-loaded backpacks (red). (The scale bar is 5 micrometers.)

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Roberta Polak & Rosanna Lim

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