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Johns Hopkins University

JHU Nanoparticles 1

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In a Johns Hopkins chemical and biomolecular engineering lab, Justin Hanes, an associate professor, and doctoral student Samuel K. Lai tested coated nanoparticles that could deliver medications through the body's sticky mucus layers.

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