Tension at EMBO's Aneuploidy Workshop.
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The EMBO 2010 Workshop on Chromosome Segregation and Aneuploidy, held between 19 and 23 June at Edinburgh University's Royal College of Surgeons, highlighted basic mitotic mechanisms, chromosome-based defects linked to human diseases and the processes that connect them.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- EMBO reports
دوره 11 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010