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Oct 2007
1h 40m

Beyond the Genome: the challenge of synt...

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Contributor(s): Professor Sarah Franklin, Professor Peter Lipton, Professor Chris Mason, Dr J Craig Venter | The 1970s introduced genetic modification, the 1990s cloning and GM food, and the human genome was sequenced in 2000. Synthetic biology is heralded as the next frontier. But what is synthetic biology and how do we imagine its future directions? What a ... Show More
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