Philosophy and Ethics of our Project

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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?