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Nanomedicines for various diseases are in development – but research facilities produce vastly inconsistent results on how the body will react to them

  • Written by Morteza Mahmoudi, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Michigan State University
imageNanoparticles (white disks) can be used to deliver treatment to cells (blue).Brenda Melendez and Rita Serda/National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, CC BY-NC

Nanomedicines took the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers are using these very small and intricate materials to develop diagnostic tests and treatments....

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