UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging.

Medical imaging often requires getting unnatural materials such as metal ions into cells. Scientists have therefore had to come up with ways to disguise these compounds to get them past the cell membranes. Michael Coogan and colleagues at Cardiff University have come up with a way to avoid the current difficulties with some of these imaging treatments.

Find out their solution by reading the news story in Chemistry World and downloading Coogan’s ChemComm communication.