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Why novel mRNA modifications are so challenging and what we can do about it

Audrey Penning1, Jana Jeschke1, François Fuks2

  • 1Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Centre (U-CRC), Université libre de Bruxelles, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium.

Nature Reviews. Molecular Cell Biology
|April 15, 2022
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