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Many thanks to Olga Brück (LMU) for skillful assistance in preparing the review. Our own work in the reviewed research area was supported by the German DFG excellence cluster “Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)” and the BMBF Munich Biotech cluster m4 project T12.

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Wagner, E. (2011). Functional Polymer Conjugates for Medicinal Nucleic Acid Delivery. In: Kunugi, S., Yamaoka, T. (eds) Polymers in Nanomedicine. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_2011_148

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