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