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Balancing stealth and targeting to improve nanomedicine efficacy
Yi Ju1,2,3, Stephen John Kent4,5
1Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, and School of Cancer Medicine, La Trobe University, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. david.ju@onjcri.org.au.
Nature Nanotechnology
|May 13, 2025
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