Chapter category: Reproductive Biology
Somatic Cell Nuclei in Cloning: Strangers Traveling in a Foreign Land
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
Edited by: Peter SutovskyISBN: 0-387-37753-0
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Chapter authors:
Keith E. Latham, Shaorong Gao and Zhiming Han
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Keith E. Latham
The Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Temple University Medical School
Shaorong Gao
The Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Temple University Medical School
Zhiming Han
The Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Temple University Medical School
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