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Challenges and opportunities in environmental biosafety research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2010

Bao-Rong Lu  and
Jeremy Sweet
Bao-Rong Lu
Affiliation:
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Handan Road 220, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
Jeremy Sweet
Affiliation:
Sweet Environmental Consultants, 6 Green Street, Cambridge CB24 5JA, UK

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Type
Editorial
Information
Environmental Biosafety Research , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 1 - 3
Copyright
© ISBR, EDP Sciences, 2010

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