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Laboratory firepower for infectious disease research

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  1. an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, P.O. Box 951772, 73-320 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1772

    Scott P. Layne

  2. a staff member at Applied Robotics and Automation Group, Engineering Sciences and Applications Division, P.O. Box 1663, MS J580, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545

    Tony J. Beugelsdijk

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Layne, S., Beugelsdijk, T. Laboratory firepower for infectious disease research. Nat Biotechnol 16, 825–829 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0998-825

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