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- ↑ Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene by Stephen S. Hall (1987, Tempus Books of Microsoft Press)
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- ↑ Schwedelson, Paul. "Goeddel brothers to finally meet when Phillies host the Mets". www.inquirer.com.
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