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Gene-gun Transfection of Hippocampal Neurons

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Published on: November 30, 2006

Good gun policy needs research

Alan I Leshner¹, Victor J Dzau²

¹Alan I. Leshner is the chief executive officer emeritus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the former executive publisher of Science. alan.i.leshner@gmail.com.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|March 29, 2018

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