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Quantification of DNA in simple eukaryotic cells using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Donna R Whelan1, Keith R Bambery, Ljiljana Puskar

  • 1Centre for Biospectroscopy, School of Chemistry, Monash University, 3800, Victoria, Australia.

Journal of Biophotonics
|September 22, 2012
PubMed

Keywords:
DNAFTIRcellerythrocytehydration

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