Do I understand what I can create?: Biosafety issues in synthetic biology

Synthetic Biology: The Technoscience and Its Societal Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-100

  Schmidt, Markus ^a  

^a Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management   (Austria)

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EID: 84857823309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2678-1_6     Document Type: Chapter

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