Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 14-19 , March 2007

Gold nanoparticle-based tool to study protein conformational variants: implications in hemoglobinopathy

Received 13 April 2006 ,Accepted 24 October 2006.

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 No conflict of interest was reported by the authors of this paper.

PII: S1549-9634(06)00299-1

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2006.10.159

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 14-19 , March 2007

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