The do-it-yourself movement as a source of innovation in biotechnology – and much more

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 517-519

  de Lorenzo, Víctor ^a   Schmidt, Markus ^b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b Biofaction KG   (Austria)

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Indexed keywords

YOGHURT;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; EDITORIAL; FUNDING; GENE EDITING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATENT; PUBLICATION; ECONOMICS; INVENTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; INVENTIONS;

EID: 85017642966     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12715     Document Type: Editorial

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