Uninformed and disinformed society and the GMO market

Tomasz Twardowski1, Aleksandra Małyska1

  • 1Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Zygmunta Noskowskiego Street 12/14, 61-704 Poznań, Poland.

Trends in Biotechnology
|December 23, 2014
PubMed

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