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Zi-Hao Wang1, Lu Chen2, Wei Li3

  • 1Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer in Shanghai, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Institute, and The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 20032, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 20032, China; The International Co-laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai 20032, China.

Mitochondrion
|May 27, 2022
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Keywords:
Artificial mitochondriaIntercellular nanotubeMicrovesicleMitochondria genome editingMitochondria transferMitochondria transplantationSynthetic biology

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