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Poised to branch out

Although dendrimers have not yet taken the drug industry by storm, biomedical research and industrial applications of these tiny, highly branched molecules continue to grow. Vivien Marx reports.

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Figure 1: A conceptualization of DNA-linked dendrimers being internalized by a cell

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Marx, V. Poised to branch out. Nat Biotechnol 26, 729–732 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0708-729

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