Trypanosoma cruzi:Host cell infection and intracellular replication
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Telomeres and Telomerase in Human Stem Cells and in Cancer
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Perspectives on Ocean Science: Drugs from the Sea
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Building the Brain: From Simplicity to Complexity
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Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction(Nobel Prize 2009)
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ClinSeq: A Large-Scale Medical Sequencing Clinical Research Pilot Study
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Human Skin Microflora: DNA Sequence-Based Approach to Examining Hand Disease
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Nanomanufacturing Technologies
A lecture by Mark Pinto for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). This presentation explores technology challenges in IC...
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Cyclin-dependent kinase 2 also known as CDK2 is a human gene.The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the...
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