Biophysical Approaches to Protein Folding and Disease, a satellite meeting to the IUPAB-EBSA congress.

Eur Biophys J

Institut Pasteur, Biophysics of Macromolecules and their Interactions, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015, Paris, France.

Published: March 2018

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