Synthetic biology: Recent progress, biosafety and biosecurity concerns, and possible solutions
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Synthetic biology and biosecurity
Synthetic biology has become one of the most dynamic research fields in the life sciences. In reality, though, the term is used to cover a host of different approaches rather than a single defined discipline; these range from the large-scale assembly of DNA segments to the development of new tools and technology platforms, and to the search for the minimal cell and the origins of life. The evol...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2588-9338
DOI: 10.1016/j.jobb.2018.12.003