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Paola D'Arrigo1, Davide Tessaro

  • 1Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali ed Ingegneria Chimica Giulio Natta Politecnico di Milano, The Protein Factory, Politecnico di Milano and Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Milano, Italy. davide.tessaro@polimi.it

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|September 30, 2011
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