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Po-Chi Soo1, Yu-Tze Horng, Ying-Hsien Fu

  • 1Graduate School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Yuan Ze University, 135 Yuan-Tung Road, Chung-Li 320, Taiwan, ROC. pcsoo@saturn.yzu.edu.tw

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