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D W Urry1

  • 1University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0132, USA. danurry@cems.umn.edu

Trends in Biotechnology
|June 4, 1999
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