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16 - Liquid STEM for Studying Biological Function in Whole Cells

from Part II - Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2016

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Diana B. Peckys  and
Niels de Jonge
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Frances M. Ross
Frances M. Ross
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IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York
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Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy , pp. 334 - 355
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Print publication year: 2016

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