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Structure-function Studies in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Using Recombinase-mediated Cassette Exchange
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Frank Schnütgen1, A Francis Stewart, Harald von Melchner

  • 1Department for Molecular Hematology, University of Frankfurt Medical School, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Methods in Enzymology
|December 13, 2006
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