Genomically recoded organisms expand biological functions

Marc J Lajoie1, Alexis J Rovner, Daniel B Goodman

  • 1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 19, 2013
PubMed

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