Sugar Gradient Propels Brain-Homing 'Nanoswimmers' Across Biological Barriers (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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Glucose-guided nanoswimmers in a petri dish. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 2, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Joseph at University College London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'Chemotactic synthetic vesicles: Design and applications in blood-brain barrier crossing.'

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[Credit: Joseph <em>et al.</em>, Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1700362]

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