Future of biomedical sciences: single molecule microscopy

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Visualizing Single Molecular Complexes In Vivo Using Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy
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Visualizing Single Molecular Complexes In Vivo Using Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy

Published on: September 8, 2009

Nils G Walter1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Single Molecule Analysis Group, University of Michigan, 930 N. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA. nwalter@umich.edu

Biopolymers
|November 18, 2006
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