RNAi mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans

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Alla Grishok1

  • 1Center for Cancer Research, MIT, E17-526, 40 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. agrishok@mit.edu

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|September 16, 2005
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