Synthetic genomics and synthetic biology applications between hopes and concerns.

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Published in Curr Genomics on March 01, 2013

Authors

Harald König1, Daniel Frank, Reinhard Heil, Christopher Coenen

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) ; Institute of Toxicology and Genetics (ITG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, PO box 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.

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