Synthetic morphogenesis

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Teague, Brian P ^a   Guye, Patrick ^a   Weiss, Ron ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84986188648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a023929     Document Type: Article

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