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The importance of being red

Nature Biotechnology volume 27, pages 624–625 (2009)Cite this article

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Figure 1: The 'transparent mouse' experiment.

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  1. Bradley W. Rice is at Caliper Life Sciences, Alameda, California, USA.,

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  2. Christopher H. Contag is in the Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology and Radiology, and in the programs of Photomedicine and Molecular Imaging at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,

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