Engineering protocells: Prospects for Self-Assembly and nanoscale Production-Lines

Life

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1019-1053

  Miller, David M ^a,b   Gulbis, Jacqueline M ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microfluidics; Protocells; Self assembly; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925689967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life5021019     Document Type: Review

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