Cell-Sized confinement in microspheres accelerates the reaction of gene expression

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kato, Ayako ^a   Yanagisawa, Miho ^b   Sato, Yuko T ^a   Fujiwara, Kei ^c   Yoshikawa, Kenichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84859740853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00283     Document Type: Article

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