Artificial Life and Ethics

NanoEthics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 111-116

  Huesken, Simon ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Artificial life form; Creation of life; Ethics; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897426684     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-013-0186-2     Document Type: Article

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