Managing the Unimaginable. Regulatory Responses to the Challenges Posed by Synthetic Biology and Synthetic Genomics

Overview

Journal EMBO Rep

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2008 Dec 17

PMID 19079130

Citations 8

Authors

Gabrielle N Samuel

Michael J Selgelid

Ian Kerridge

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