5. Glossary
Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA)
A standard assessment method (ISO 14040 and ISO 14044) enabling multi-criteria and multi-stage environmental assessment of a product.
biorefinery
Succession of physical, chemical and/or biological technologies for deconstruction, separation and functionalisation aimed at transforming biomass in a sustainable way into platform molecules, intermediate or finished commercial products.
genome editing
Technology for modifying (rewriting) the genome using modified nucleases (called “molecular scissors”) which can insert, replace or remove a clearly-defined genome sequence.
platform molecule
Also called a synthon or building block, this is a molecule from which other more...
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