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Eddie Miles- "Do we have the right to engineer living things specifically for our own benefit?"
 
Eddie Miles- "Do we have the right to engineer living things specifically for our own benefit?"
  
David, Kamay, and Corinne: What unforeseeable dangers might there be in the technology like Gibson Assembly, which allows the possibility of synthetically constructing any existing or new sequences of genes?
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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 18:00, 5 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?"

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?