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XNA's Enzymes

We know what the sequence of XNA that you need to sort of fold up into an active enzyme, but we actually don't know yet what the sort of catalytic core of these things looks like. We're just trying to understand whether and establish whether these things can actually have their kind of catalytic activity inside cells. So at the moment, we've just been using this technique called electroporation. This isn't really a technique that we could use in a realistic clinical setting. In the future, we want to explore sort of linking XNA's enzymes to things like the sort of fatty droplets as you know - Pfizer and Moderna RNA vaccines.

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