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Nature 437, 476 (22 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437476c; Published online 21 September 2005
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How synthetic biology can avoid GMO-style conflicts
Mark Tepfer1
- ICGEB Biosafety Outstation, Via Piovega 23, 31056 Ca' Tron di Roncade, Italy
Your News story "Synthetic biologists face up to security issues" (Nature 436, 894–895; 2005), defines synthetic biology as the ability "to create complete genomes from scratch and to introduce new characteristics into viruses and bacteria". But the second half of this definition has already been applied for decades to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and particularly to modified viral genomes.
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