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Skin bioengineering is an expanding field of investigative and clinical dermatology. This second edition of the popular Bioengineering of the Skin: Water and Stratum Corneum focuses on a dramatically
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1999 marks the 40th anniversary of the inception of the ISTTT symposia. It is clear that much has changed in the field of transportation in the last 40 years but in this time the ISTTT triennial sympo
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