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John E Ladbury1

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Unit 1000, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jeladbury@mdanderson.org

Biochemical Society Transactions
|July 28, 2010
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