Biomaterials-assisted cancer vaccine delivery: preclinical landscape, challenges, and opportunities

Minglong Chen1, Yue Zhou2, Yanping Fu2

  • 1Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

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