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Polymerase Chain Reaction: Basic Protocol Plus Troubleshooting and Optimization Strategies
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Polymerase Chain Reaction: Basic Protocol Plus Troubleshooting and Optimization Strategies

Published on: May 22, 2012

The polymerase chain reaction

Martha F Kramer1, Donald M Coen1

  • 1Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Current Protocols in Protein Science
|April 23, 2008
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