A Macrophage Cell (IMAGE)

Rice University

A Macrophage Cell

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By combining cross sections of a macrophage cell from the x-, y- and z-axes, researchers could examine how nanoshell-drug complexes (red) were distributed inside cells after a 24-hour period of incubation. A dye was used to distinguish the cell nucleus (blue).

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O. Neumann/Rice University

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