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  • There's one drawback, though: The nPower Peg looks a bit like the Shake Weight, the dumbbell-like toning device widely advertised, and parodied, on TV.

    Postcards From Geekopolis Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011

  • By joining an iron oxide nanoparticle bearing a tumor-specific antibody with a gold nanoparticle bearing an anti-cancer drug, scientists created a dumbbell-like nanotech vehicle that delivered the drug into breast cancer cells.

    the Foresight Institute 2009

  • Nanotechnology targets cancer cells with dumbbell-like particles

    the Foresight Institute 2009

  • Nanotechnology targets cancer cells with dumbbell-like particles

    the Foresight Institute 2009

  • By joining an iron oxide nanoparticle bearing a tumor-specific antibody with a gold nanoparticle bearing an anti-cancer drug, scientists created a dumbbell-like nanotech vehicle that delivered the drug into breast cancer cells.

    the Foresight Institute 2009

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