DNA and RNA Nanobiotechnologies in Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases
DNA and RNA nanobiotechnologies have currently reached the status of one of the most dynamic research areas in the field of drug delivery in molecular medicine. Scientists and bio-engineers are creating totally new nanometer-scale structures with unique b
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Volker A. Erdmann Jan Barciszewski Editors
DNA and RNA Nanobiotechnologies in Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases
RNA Technologies
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Volker A. Erdmann • Jan Barciszewski Editors
DNA and RNA Nanobiotechnologies in Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases
Editors Volker A. Erdmann Institute of Chemistry/Biochemistry Free University Berlin Berlin Germany
Jan Barciszewski Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences Poznan, Poland
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Preface
DNA and RNA Nanobiotechnologies: A Breakthrough for the Field of Molecular Medicine This year we are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the doublehelical structure of DNA by Watson and Crick. That discovery revolutionized our thinking in just about every aspect in which we are looking now at the living world. Although the four different bases of DNA are basically simple compounds, enormous complexity can be generated by using them in
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