The current landscape of nucleic acid therapeutics

Jayesh A. Kulkarni; Dominik Witzigmann; Sarah B. Thomson; Sam Chen; Blair R. Leavitt; Pieter R. Cullis; Roy van der Meel

doi:10.1038/s41565-021-00898-0

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Nucleic acidComputational biologyOligonucleotideTranslation (biology)RNA interferenceSmall interfering RNANanotechnologyBiologyRNAComputer scienceBioinformaticsDNAGeneGeneticsMessenger RNAMaterials science

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Year: 2021
Type: review
Volume: 16
Issue: 6
Pages: 630-643
Citations: 1147
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                                    Jayesh A. Kulkarni, 
                                
                                    Dominik Witzigmann, 
                                
                                    Sarah B. Thomson
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2021). 
                            The current landscape of nucleic acid therapeutics. 
                            Nature Nanotechnology
                            , 16
                            (6)
                            , 630-643.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00898-0
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41565-021-00898-0