Transposon tools: Worldwide landscape of intellectual property and technological developments

Genetica

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-299

  Palazzoli, Fabien ^a,b   Testu, François Xavier ^a   Merly, Franck ^d   Bigot, Yves ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

^d France Innovation Scientifique and Transfert SA   (France)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Gene delivery; Patent landscape; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PATENT; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; INTERNATIONALITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77949306082     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-009-9426-3     Document Type: Article

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