Explaining life. Synthetic biology and non-scientific understandings of life

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 959-963

  Deplazes Zemp, Anna ^a   Biller Andorno, Nikola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LIFE; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

LIFE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84868710139     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.150     Document Type: Article

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