Point of View

Doug Tymes

Point of View: Author Affiliations and References

Author Affiliations:

Deyu Li, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral associate in the Departments of Chemistry and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Nidhi Shrivastav is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. Sirikan Nawapan is a doctoral candidate at the Chulabhorn Graduate Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, and a visiting graduate student at MIT. John M. Essigmann, Ph.D., is the William and Betsy Leitch Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, and the Associate Head of the Department of Chemistry, MIT.

 

Reference List:

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