Protective Microparticles Shield and Deliver Micronutrients to People (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Protective Microparticles Shield and Deliver Micronutrients to People (1 of 2)

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Images of the nutrient-loaded microparticles, which could deliver up to four micronutrients at once when given orally. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 13, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.C. Anselmo at David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research in Cambridge, MA; and colleagues was titled, "A heat-stable microparticle platform for oral micronutrient delivery."

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A.C. Anselmo <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)

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