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Microfluidic Picoliter Bioreactor for Microbial Single-cell Analysis: Fabrication, System Setup, and Operation
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Microfluidic Picoliter Bioreactor for Microbial Single-cell Analysis: Fabrication, System Setup, and Operation

Published on: December 6, 2013

A microbath

J H GADDUM, R P STEPHENSON

    British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy
    |December 1, 1958
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    MUSCLES/effect of drugs onPHARMACOLOGY/apparatus and instruments

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