Gold Nanoshells Ferry Chemo Drugs Into Cancer Cells to Spare Rest of Body

By combining cross sections of a macrophage cell from the x-, y-, and z-axes, researchers could examine how nanoshell-drug complexes (red) distributed inside cells after a 24-hour period of incubation. A dye was used to distinguish the cell nucleus (blue). (Image by O. Neumann/Rice University)

 

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