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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?" | + | 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]
