Bioengineering microbial communities: Their potential to help, hinder and disgust

Bioengineered

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 137-144

  Sivasubramaniam, Diane ^a   Franks, Ashley E ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

artificial; community function; dread; function; gene circuits; genetic engineering; naturalness; synthetic biology; trust

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOREMEDIATION; DISGUST; DRIVER; EXPECTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PERCEPTION; SCIENTIST; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRUST; ATTITUDE; CELL ENGINEERING; ETHICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREJUDICE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CELL ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PREJUDICE; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84976351728     PISSN: 21655979     EISSN: 21655987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2016.1187346     Document Type: Note

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