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Designer DNA give RNAi more spine

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Precisely engineered DNA nanostructures can be used to deliver small interfering RNA molecules into cells and tumours to suppress genes.

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Figure 1: Targeting DNA tetrahedra to a tumour in a mouse model.

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  1. Dhiraj Bhatia, Saikat Chakraborty and Yamuna Krishnan are at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore 560065, India,

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