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Silence the target

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A new formulation of magnetic nanoparticles steered to cells by external magnets can deliver nucleic acids to turn off the growth of tumour blood vessels in mice.

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Figure 1: Magnetic targeting in drug and gene delivery.

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  1. Christian Plank is at the Institute of Experimental Oncology and Therapy Research, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 Munich, Germany. plank@lrz.tum.de,

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The author is a co-founder of the biotech company OZ Biosciences (OZB), Marseille, France. OZB develops and markets nanomagnetic reagents for nucleic acid delivery. The authors whose paper is discussed in this News & Views have used such reagents from OZB and have shown that their own reagents are superior.

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