Towards a minimal cytoplasm

The Minimal Cell: The Biophysics of Cell Compartment and the Origin of Cell Functionality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-30

  Keighron, Jacqueline D ^a   Keating, Christine D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9944-0_1     Document Type: Chapter

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