The power of synthetic biology for bioproduction, remediation and pollution control: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals will inevitably require the application of molecular biology and biotechnology on a global scale

Víctor de Lorenzo; Kristala L.J. Prather; Guo Qiang Chen; Elizabeth O'Day; Conrad von Kameke; Diego A. Oyarzún; Leticia Hosta-Rigau; Habiba Alsafar; Cong Cao; Weizhi Ji; Hideyuki Okano; Richard J. Roberts; Mostafa Ronaghi; Karen Yeung; Feng Zhang; Sang Yup Lee

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The power of synthetic biology for bioproduction, remediation and pollution control: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals will inevitably require the application of molecular biology and biotechnology on a global scale

Víctor de Lorenzo, Kristala L.J. Prather, Guo Qiang Chen, Elizabeth O'Day, Conrad von Kameke, Diego A. Oyarzún, Leticia Hosta-Rigau, Habiba Alsafar, Cong Cao, Weizhi Ji, Hideyuki Okano, Richard J. Roberts, Mostafa Ronaghi, Karen Yeung, Feng Zhang, Sang Yup Lee

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Original language	British English
Article number	e45658
Journal	EMBO Reports
Volume	19
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201745658
State	Published - Apr 2018

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de Lorenzo, V., Prather, K. L. J., Chen, G. Q., O'Day, E., von Kameke, C., Oyarzún, D. A., Hosta-Rigau, L., Alsafar, H., Cao, C., Ji, W., Okano, H., Roberts, R. J., Ronaghi, M., Yeung, K., Zhang, F., & Lee, S. Y. (2018). The power of synthetic biology for bioproduction, remediation and pollution control: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals will inevitably require the application of molecular biology and biotechnology on a global scale. EMBO Reports, 19(4), Article e45658. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201745658

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