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DNA-Tethered RNA Polymerase for Programmable In vitro Transcription and Molecular Computation

Published on: December 29, 2021

Ting Li1, Kaiqi Hu1, Jiaying Li2

  • 1Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|October 7, 2026
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Keywords:
biomolecular engineeringcancer diagnosisdynamic DNA assemblyhybridization chain reactionmolecular scissor

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