From Chicago, at the American Chemical Society Meeting
High-density lipoproteins (HDLs) are referred to as the good cholesterol because they can penetrate artery-clogging plaque and carry away some of the bad cholesterol. Now, researchers in New York City have designed a nanoparticle, modeled on HDL particles, to improve the detection of such arterial plaques.
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