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Portable gene expression guaranteed

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  1. Marios Tomazou and Guy-Bart Stan are in the Department of Bioengineering & the Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology at Imperial College, London, UK.,

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Tomazou, M., Stan, GB. Portable gene expression guaranteed. Nat Biotechnol 36, 313–314 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4119

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