Image of the Day: Candy Shell
These sugar polymer spheres protect cells, engineered to produce disease-fighting agents, from a patient's immune system. Over time, immune cells (blue and green) detect the spheres and attack (red).
KOCH INSTITUTE AT MIT, ANDREW BADER, OMID VEISEH, AND ARTURO VEGAS (COURTESY KOCH INSTITUTE IMAGE AWARDS AT MIT)
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