Engineering multicellular systems by cell-cell communication.

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Published in Curr Opin Biotechnol on September 03, 2009

Authors

Anand Pai1, Yu Tanouchi, Cynthia H Collins, Lingchong You

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 USA.

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