Gene silencing: Shrinking the black box of RNAi

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Hunter, Craig P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENE SILENCING; RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0034708255     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00325-0     Document Type: Review

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