A Universal Code for mRNA Stability?

Ying-Hsin Chen1, Jeff Coller1

  • 1Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Trends in Genetics : TIG
|September 6, 2016
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