Designing nanomedicine for immuno-oncology

Nature Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Jiang, Wen ^a   Von Roemeling, Christina A ^b   Chen, Yuanxin ^b   Qie, Yaqing ^b   Liu, Xiujie ^b   Chen, Jianzhu ^c   Kim, Betty Y S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 85020455714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2157846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-017-0029     Document Type: Article

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