Overview of the Experiment (IMAGE)

Institute for Basic Science

Overview of the Experiment

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Hollow pumpkin-shaped molecules with allyloxy tails self-assemble into vesicles which can carry drugs into cancer cells. Then a laser breaks the vesicles which facilitates the release of the drug in a timely and location-specific manner.

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