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Lipidomics technologies at the end of the first decade and the beginning of the next

Alfred H Merrill1, Edward A Dennis, Jeffrey G McDonald

  • 1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

Advances in Nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)
|September 17, 2013
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