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Publisher Correction: Controllable molecular motors engineered from myosin and RNA
Tosan Omabegho1, Pinar S Gurel2,3, Clarence Y Cheng4
1Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Nature Nanotechnology
|March 4, 2018
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