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Nanodiamonds in Drug Development, Personalized Medicine

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A schematic of targeted drug delivery towards breast cancer is shown. Nanodiamonds are encapsulated within liposomes that are functionalized with targeting antibodies. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 21, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Ho at University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA, and colleagues was titled, " Nanodiamonds: The intersection of nanotechnology, drug development, and personalized medicine."

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[Credit: Lelieveld <i>et al.</i> Sci. Adv. 2015;1:e1500498]

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