Novel PCR-enhancing compounds and their modes of action

PCR Technology: Current Innovations, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 51-63

  Chakrabarti, Raj ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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