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NIH Guidelines

The purpose of the NIH Guidelines is to specify the practices for constructing and handling:  (i) recombinant nucleic acid molecules, (ii) synthetic nucleic acid molecules, including those that are chemically or otherwise modified but can base pair with naturally occurring nucleic acid molecules, and (iii) cells, organisms, and viruses containing such molecules.

NIH Guidelines [PDF] – April 2019

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