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

doi:10.15252/embr.201745658

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

Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology

World Economic Forum
Campus de Cantoblanco
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peking University
Tsinghua University
Olaris Therapeutics, Inc.
BioInnovators Europe
Imperial College London
Technical University of Denmark
The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Kunming University of Science and Technology
Keio University School of Medicine
New England Biolabs
Illumina Inc.
King's College London
Broad Institute
McGovern Institute
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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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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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. / de Lorenzo, Víctor; Prather, Kristala L.J.; Chen, Guo Qiang et al.
In: EMBO Reports, Vol. 19, No. 4, e45658, 04.2018.

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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

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