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We thank Silke Glowotz, Martin Wichmann, Anitha Thomas and Colin Walsh for technical support. We express sincere thanks to the patients for their participation in the study. We thank Prof. Dr Alf Lamprecht and Dr Manusmriti Singh for providing us nanoparticles during the initial experiments. We thank the staff of the Central Animal Facility and Matthias Ballmaier from the Cell Sorting Core Facility (supported in part by the Braukmann-Wittenberg-Herz-Stiftung and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) of Hannover Medical School. This study was supported by the Rudolf-Bartling Stiftung, an ERC grant under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (No. 638035), by grants 110284, 110287, 110292 and 111267 from Deutsche Krebshilfe; grant DJCLS R13/14 from the Deutsche José Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung e.V; the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research grant 01EO0802 (IFB-Tx); DFG grant HE 5240/5-1, HE 5240/5-2 and HE 5240/6-1; grants from Dieter-Schlag Stiftung and a Terry Fox Foundation Program Project Award to RKH.
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Euan Ramsay is an employee of Precision Nanosystems. Pieter Cullis is founder of Precision Nanosystems. The other authors have no conflicts of interest.
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Jyotsana, N., Sharma, A., Chaturvedi, A. et al. RNA interference efficiently targets human leukemia driven by a fusion oncogene in vivo. Leukemia 32, 224–226 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2017.269
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