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Sending Drugs to Specific Spots in a Tiny Cage

New York Times, Nov. 2, 2009

Washington University researchers are putting drugs inside "nanocages" (gold cubes with sides about 50 nanometers long and holes at each corner), using with near-infrared light to heat and unseal them and let the drugs out.

The nanocages can also be made to bind with tumors.


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