Label-free pathogen detection with sensor chips assembled from Peptide nanotubes.
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SUBMITTER: de la Rica R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6486659 | biostudies-literature | 2008
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Label-free pathogen detection with sensor chips assembled from Peptide nanotubes.
de la Rica Roberto R Mendoza Ernest E Lechuga Laura M LM Matsui Hiroshi H
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20080101 50
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