The case for biotech on Mars

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• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Nature Biotechnology

• Publication date

  2020-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41587-020-0485-4PMID 32265561
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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