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Image of a lysosome observed using transmission electron microscopy, a method that can reveal the form of nanoparticles inside of cells. The degradation products are made up of gold crystals measuring 2 nm in diameter self-organized in nanoleaves. Non-degraded nanoparticles are in red, and degradation products are in orange.

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Alice Balfourier, laboratoire MSC (CNRS/université de Paris) and Christine Péchoux-Longin (plateforme MIMA2, INRA)

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