Microbial systems engineering: First successes and the way ahead

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 356-362

  Dietz, Sven ^a   Panke, Sven ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological chassis; Biotechnology; Genome engineering; Minimal genomes; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; RNA;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGY; CELL COMPOSITION; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77950445877     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900174     Document Type: Review

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