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In vivo accurate target bio-marking of tumors through in situ biosynthesized fluorescent zinc nanoclusters

Meina Su, Jing Ye, Qiwei Li, Wei Ge, Yuanyuan Zhang, Hui Jiang, Christian Amatore, Xuemei Wang

RSC Advances · 2015 · 16 citations · 22 references

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This article demonstrates that when cultured with micromolar zinc gluconate solutions, cancerous cells readily biosynthesized<italic>in situ</italic>biocompatible zinc nanoclusters allowing their fluorescence bio-imaging.

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