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Open biotechnology: licenses needed

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Open biotechnology may be the ideal solution to ensure scientific progress and the realization of the common good, but it has yet to deliver on its promises.

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The author would like to thank F. Hemmings and B.M. Knoppers for reviewing the manuscript, E.R. Gold for comments on an earlier version of the draft and Genome Canada/Genome Quebec for their financial support of the PRIVAC project Genomics Applied to the Discovery and Development of Vaccines and Immunotherapies.

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Joly, Y. Open biotechnology: licenses needed. Nat Biotechnol 28, 417–419 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0510-417

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