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This work was supported by the Medical Research Council (P.H., program no. MC_U105178804) and the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (Sir Henry Dale Fellowship to A.I.T., 215453/Z/19/Z).
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Taylor, A.I., Holliger, P. On gene silencing by the X10-23 DNAzyme. Nat. Chem. 14, 855–858 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-00990-5
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