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New Color-coded Test Quickly Reveals If Medical Nanoparticles Deliver Their Payload

2022-01-09

New Color-coded Test Quickly Reveals If Medical Nanoparticles Deliver Their Payload

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed a color-coded test that quickly signals whether newly developed nanoparticles — ultra small compartments designed to ferry medicines, vaccines and other therapies — deliver their cargo into target cells. Historically, nanoparticles have a very low delivery rate to the cytosol, the inside compartment of cells, releasing only about 1%–2% of their...