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Smart delivery with nanofactories

Researchers engineer biological 'nanofactories' that can trigger a quorum sensing response in bacteria.

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  1. Fernandes, R. et al. Engineered biological nanofactories trigger quorum sensing response in targeted bacteria. Nat. Nanotechnol. advance online publication (17 January 2010).

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Doerr, A. Smart delivery with nanofactories. Nat Methods 7, 178 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0310-178

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