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    Economic and environmental assessment of bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) production from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste

    The management of municipal solid waste is a major logistic and environmental problem worldwide. Nonetheless, the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) is a valuable source of nutrients which can b...

    Jon Kepa Izaguirre, Leire Barañano, Sonia Castañón in Bioresources and Bioprocessing (2021)

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    Cloning and the Oviedo Convention: The Socio-cultural Construction of Regulation

    In 1997, the Oviedo Convention, signed by most of the European Union (EU) member states (Germany and the United Kingdom were the most remarkable exceptions), banned ‘the creation of human embryos for research ...

    Itziar Alkorta, Inigo Miguel Beriain in The Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medici… (2013)

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    Heavy Metal Phytoremediation: Microbial Indicators of Soil Health for the Assessment of Remediation Efficiency

    Phytoremediation is an effective, non-intrusive, inexpensive, aesthetically pleasing, socially accepted, promising phytotechnology for the remediation of polluted soils. The objective of any soil remediation p...

    Lur Epelde, José Ma Becerril, Itziar Alkorta in Advances in Applied Bioremediation (2009)