Editing Biosecurity: Needs and Strategies for Governing Genome Editing, Executive Summary

@inproceedings{Kirkpatrick2018EditingBN,
  title={Editing Biosecurity: Needs and Strategies for Governing Genome Editing, Executive Summary},
  author={Jessica R. Kirkpatrick and Gregory D. Koblentz and Megan J. Palmer and Edward Perello and David A. Relman and Sarah W. Denton},
  year={2018}
}
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