Environmental biosafety in the age of Synthetic Biology: Do we really need a radical new approach?: Environmental fates of microorganisms bearing synthetic genomes could be predicted from previous data on traditionally engineered bacteria for in situ bioremediation

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 926-931

  de Lorenzo, Victor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; GMEs; GMOs; Orthogonal life; Risk assessment; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOSAFETY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77958197159     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000099     Document Type: Article

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