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Ordering Single Cells and Single Embryos in 3D Confinement: A New Device for High Content Screening
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Clinical challenges in providing embryos for stem-cell initiatives
Christopher L R Barratt1, Justin C St John, Masoud Afnan
1Assisted Conception Unit, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TG, UK. c.l.barratt@bham.ac.uk
Lancet (London, England)
|July 13, 2004
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