What Does Synthetic Biology Have to Do with Biology?

BioSocieties

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 291-302

  Keller, Evelyn Fox ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifical Biology; Biological Engineering; Biology; Life; Synthetic Biology; Technoscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045167645     PISSN: 17458552     EISSN: 17458560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1745855209990123     Document Type: Article

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