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This page is for the Philosophical and Ethical considerations surrounding our project to optimize a metabolic pathway in E. coli.
 
This page is for the Philosophical and Ethical considerations surrounding our project to optimize a metabolic pathway in E. coli.
  
Eddie Miles- "Do we have the right to engineer living things specifically for our own benefit?"
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Eddie Miles- "Do we have the right to engineer living things specifically for our own benefit?" Related Article: '''Synthetic Biology: Drawing a Line in Darwin's Sand'''  [http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=phl&AN=PHL2126216&site=ehost-live]
  
 
David, Kamay, and Corinne: What unforeseeable dangers might there be in technology like Gibson Assembly, which allows the possibility of synthetically constructing any existing or new sequences of genes?
 
David, Kamay, and Corinne: What unforeseeable dangers might there be in technology like Gibson Assembly, which allows the possibility of synthetically constructing any existing or new sequences of genes?

Revision as of 13:35, 16 July 2012

This page is for the Philosophical and Ethical considerations surrounding our project to optimize a metabolic pathway in E. coli.

Eddie Miles- "Do we have the right to engineer living things specifically for our own benefit?" Related Article: Synthetic Biology: Drawing a Line in Darwin's Sand [1]

David, Kamay, and Corinne: What unforeseeable dangers might there be in technology like Gibson Assembly, which allows the possibility of synthetically constructing any existing or new sequences of genes?

Alexander, Virginia: Is enough understood about synthetic biology to avoid unintended catastrophies? Related article: Synthetics: the Ethics of Synthetic Biology [2]