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Exploding vesicles

Ting F Zhu, Jack W Szostak Journal of Systems Chemistry 2011, 2:4 (1 December 2011)

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A dramatic phenomenon in which light triggers the sudden rupture of fatty acid vesicles has been observed in a primitive cell membrane model, and could lead to applications such as targeted drug delivery