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Institutional biosafety committees and public participation: assessing an experiment

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  1. Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    Diana B. Dutton

  2. Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    John L. Hochheimer

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