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Tristan Tabouillot1, Hari S Muddana, Peter J Butler

  • 1Department of Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 205 Hallowell Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
|January 17, 2012
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