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Lipid nanodiscs give cancer a STING

Lipid nanodiscs carrying a potent STING agonist penetrate deep into solid tumours compared with gold-standard liposomes and enable long-term antitumour immunotherapy.

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Fig. 1: Lipid nanodiscs give cancer immunotherapy a STING.

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Gong, N., Mitchell, M.J. Lipid nanodiscs give cancer a STING. Nat. Mater. 21, 616–617 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01270-w

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