Industry self-governance: A new way to manage dangerous technologies

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 53-62

  Maurer, Stephen M ^a   Von Engelhardt, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial DNA; International Association Synthetic Biology; Private security standards; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879336597     PISSN: 00963402     EISSN: 19383282     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096340213486126     Document Type: Article

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