DNA synthesis and security

DNA Microarrays, Synthesis and Synthetic DNA

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 285-300

  Schmidt, Markus ^a   Giersch, Gregor ^a  

^a Biosafety Working Group   (Austria)

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