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Grabbing the cat by the tail: manipulating molecules one by one
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- Authors
- Bustamante, C., Macosko, J. C., & Wuite, G. J. L.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
- Published
- 2000-11
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 130-136
- ISSN
- 1471-0072 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0080
- OpenAlex
- W2147683139
- Cited by
- 403
- References
- 56
- FWCI
- 1.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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