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Artificial
cells get chatty
The polymer vesicles have sugars on their surfaces, which let them link to bacteria in the same way natural cells communicate with each other. The artificial cells transferred a dye from their interiors into the bacteria, showing that it should be possible to design artificial cells that can transfer drugs to specific types of natural cells.
Research paper:
Sweet-Talking Double Hydrophilic Block Copolymer Vesicles
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, published online May 26, 2008
Researcher's homepage:
Cameron Alexander
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