Peptide Nucleic Acids: Applications in Biomedical Sciences.

Molecules

The Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein Kerem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.

Published: July 2020

The DNA mimic, PNA (peptide nucleic acid), has been with us now for almost 3 decades [...].

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