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Focus issue: measurement on a small scale.

Nancy R Gough
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This week's issues of Science and Science's STKE focus on how instrumentation is advancing investigation of biological questions. Science highlights how advances in detection methods are revealing the chemical aspects of biology, and STKE addresses techniques for single-molecule tracking and approaches to better understanding the interaction of cells with nanoparticles.

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Nancy R Gough. 2006-03-21. Focus issue: measurement on a small scale.. https://doi.org/10.1126/stke.3272006eg4

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