European do-it-yourself (DIY) biology: Beyond the hope, hype and horror

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 548-551

  Seyfried, Günter ^a   Pei, Lei ^b,c   Schmidt, Markus ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Biofaction KG   (Austria)

^c International Dialogue and Conflict Management   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amateur science; Art and design; Biosafety; Democratization; DIYBio; Open access; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA MODIFICATION; EUROPE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; WORKSHOP; BIOLOGY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

BIOLOGY; EUROPE; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84900012997     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300149     Document Type: Article

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