An Invisibility Cloak For Living Cells

Using living cells as more efficient tools for delivering medicines  to diseased parts of the body has  gotten a little closer.   In a new report, Dayang Wang and colleagues explain that the human body's efficiency in getting rid of foreign substances can also be an obstacle. Some foreign substances, such as viruses, are harmful and should obviously be removed, but the body also considers drugs and nanoparticles — meant to treat diseases and allow physicians to see cells and organs — to be foreign objects, and they are also quickly removed. read more

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