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cover: In this artist’s representation of a recent experiment on laboratory mice, lipid nanoparticles (white) bombard a cancerous tumor with a cocktail of two drugs (blue and green), one that rallies the body’s immune system against the tumor and one that blocks the tumor’s own defenses against the attack. (J. Park et al., Nature Materials, in press, doi:10.1038/nmat3355.) As discussed in the article by Jennifer Grossman and Scott McNeil on page 38, cancer-fighting nanomaterials have also shown potential in treating human patients. (Image courtesy of Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation.)

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