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Application of Biochip Microfluidic Technology to Detect Serum Allergen-specific Immunoglobulin E sIgE
Published on: April 21, 2019
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A perspective on the challenges and issues in developing biomarkers for human allergic risk assessments
Ying Mu1, Dianne E Godar1, Stephen J Merrill2
1Center for Devices & Radiological Health, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA.
Biomarkers in Medicine
|July 13, 2017
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