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Spectroscopy: An International Journal
Volume 27 (2012), Article ID 513286, 18 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/513286

Role of Vibrational Spectroscopy in Stem Cell Research

Ceren Aksoy1 and Feride Severcan2

1Department of Biotechnology, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
2Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey

Copyright © 2012 Ceren Aksoy and Feride Severcan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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