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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?
 
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Alexander, Virginia:  Is enough understood about synthetic biology to avoid unintended catastrophies?
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Related article:  '''Synthetics: the Ethics of Synthetic Biology'''  [http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/images/uploads/Ethics_of_synthetic_biology.pdf]

Revision as of 14:56, 10 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?

Alexander, Virginia: Is enough understood about synthetic biology to avoid unintended catastrophies? Related article: Synthetics: the Ethics of Synthetic Biology [1]