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Kashyap R Patel1, Ryan P Jajosky1, Victoria M Vance1

  • 1Division of Transfusion Medicine, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|September 2, 2026
PubMed

Keywords:
Binding affinityFlow cytometryProtein microarraySurface plasmon resonance

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