Supramolecular delivery of fluorescent probes in developing embryos

• DOI: 10.1039/c6ra15368b
• Publication Date: 2016-07-26T02:30:18Z
• Authors: Yang Zhang; Ek Raj Thapaliya; Sicheng Tang; James D. Baker; Françisco M. Raymo
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences

Self-assembling nanocarriers of amphiphilic polymers encapsulate hydrophobic fluorophores in their hydrophobic interior and, upon injection in Drosophila melanogaster embryos, release their cargo into the cellular blastoderm.