Scientists looking for ways to get minute doses of drugs, so-called "nano-medicines", into the right places in the human body have turned to "backpacking" bacteria to ferry the cargo. This week, at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Diego, Dr David H Gracias, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, gave an account of the progress he and his team are making in this area...

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