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Chapter 27 - Embryonic Stem Cells: Medicine's New Frontier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2018

By
Ariff Bongso
Edited by
Gabor Kovacs ,
Peter Brinsden  and
Alan DeCherney
Gabor Kovacs
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
Peter Brinsden
Affiliation:
Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge
Alan DeCherney
Affiliation:
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
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In-Vitro Fertilization
The Pioneers' History
 , pp. 214 - 223
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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