Tools for translation: Non-viral materials for therapeutic mRNA delivery

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  Hajj, Khalid A ^a   Whitehead, Kathryn A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2017.56     Document Type: Review

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