The road from qualitative to quantitative assay: What is next?

The PCR Revolution: Basic Technologies and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 110-128

  Pfaffl, Michael W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 80053383780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511818974.010     Document Type: Chapter

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