The Experimental Design Assistant

Nathalie Percie du Sert1, Ian Bamsey2, Simon T Bate3

  • 1National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), London, United Kingdom.

Plos Biology
|September 29, 2017
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