Chapter 1 Förster resonance energy transfer-FRET what is it, why do it, and how it's done

Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue C, 2009, Pages 1-57

  Clegg, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 59249101019     PISSN: 00757535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0075-7535(08)00001-6     Document Type: Review

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