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Designer TALEs team up for highly efficient gene induction

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Figure 1: Synthetic TALE activators act synergistically to express human genes.

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  1. Annekatrin Richter and Jens Boch are in the Department of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.,

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Richter, A., Boch, J. Designer TALEs team up for highly efficient gene induction. Nat Methods 10, 207–208 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2373

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