Financial & competing interests disclosure
All authors hold the patent US20100093094 on triazine dendrimers and methods of making and using the same for nucleic acid transport. The research of Merkel and Kissel is supported by MEDITRANS, an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework (NMP4-CT-2006–026668), and the work of Mintzer and Simanek at Texas A&M was under NIH R01 GM 65460. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.