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?" Related Article: Synthetic Biology: Drawing a Line in Darwin's Sand [1] Biology and Art- In what ways can synthetic biology be used to create art? What implications might our work have on the accessibility of "bioart"? How does this relate to the ethical questions that we've been considering? [2]

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 [3]

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