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Environmental Biotechnology

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Business and government are looking to biotech for answers about how to clean up the environment

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Edgington, S. Environmental Biotechnology. Nat Biotechnol 12, 1338–1342 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1294-1338

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