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Bacteria-based nanosystems for enhanced antitumor therapy

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31971304), Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (B2021201038), the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Basic Research Cooperation Project (19JCZDJC64100), and Doctoral Students Innovation Project of Hebei Province (CXZZBS2020022, CXZZBS2021011).

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  1. College of Chemistry & Environmental Science, Chemical Biology Key Laboratory of Hebei Province, Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis of the Ministry of Education, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China

    Yu Han, Miao Fan, Dandan Han, Kun Ge & Jinchao Zhang

  2. School of Life Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin Engineering Center of Micro Nano Biomaterials and Detection Treatment Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Jin Chang

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Han, Y., Fan, M., Han, D. et al. Bacteria-based nanosystems for enhanced antitumor therapy. Sci. China Life Sci. 65, 438–441 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-1991-y

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