Microfluidic, marker-free isolation of circulating tumor cells from blood samples

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Nature Protocols

• Publication date

  2014-02-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1038/nprot.2014.044PMID 24577360PMCID PMC4179254
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