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- Veselin Manojlovic1 &
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Pavlo Lutsik is in the Department of Oncology, Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven 3000, Belgium.
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Veselin Manojlovic is at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0AW, UK.
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- George S. Vassiliou
George S. Vassiliou is at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0AW, UK.
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