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Review

Genotoxicity screening: the slow march to the future

Richard M Walmsley The University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences, G10, Jackson’s Mill, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK
Pages 261-268 | Published online: 16 Aug 2005

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