{"id":573826,"date":"2010-05-21T01:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T05:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2010-05-21T01:57:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T05:57:52","slug":"synthetic-biology-and-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/573826","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic biology and ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any regular readers of this blog know where I stand on this issue<\/a>. (Hint: I’m a pretty big fan of synthetic biology<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

From the first link, the release:<\/p>\n

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Press Release: Moral Issues Raised by Synthetic Biology Subject of Hastings Center Project<\/big><\/p>\n

Project completes third workshop as news of first synthetic bacterial genome announced<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Garrison NY) A\u00a0Hastings Center<\/span><\/a> workshop examining moral issues in synthetic biology completed its third meeting as the J. Craig Venter Group announced that it had created the first viable cell with a synthetic genome. \u201cSynthetic biology certainly raises deep philosophical and moral questions about the human relationship to nature,\u201d according to Gregory Kaebnick, a Hastings Center scholar who is managing the project. \u201cIt\u2019s not clear what the answers to those questions are.\u00a0\u00a0If\u00a0\u00a0by \u2018nature\u2019 we mean the world around us, more or less as we found it, we may well decide that synthetic biology does not really change the human relationship to nature\u2014and may even help us preserve what is left of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor is it clear that the questions raised by synthetic biology are new ones. According to Thomas H. Murray, president of The Hastings Center and the project\u2019s principal investigator,\u00a0\u201cWe have come up against similar problems in other domains\u2014most notably, in work on nanotechnology and gene transfer technology\u2014but synthetic biology poses them especially sharply and pressingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hastings Center has been at the forefront of interdisciplinary research into ethical issues in emerging technology. The synthetic biology project is funded by a grant from the\u00a0Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<\/strong><\/a> . Project participants include synthetic biologists, bioethicists, philosophers, and public policy experts. The Center\u2019s work is part of a comprehensive look at synthetic biology by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Other participants in the initiative are the\u00a0J. Craig Venter Institute<\/strong><\/a> and the\u00a0Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Any regular readers of this blog know where I stand on this issue. (Hint: I’m a pretty big fan of synthetic biology.) From the first link, the release: Press Release: Moral Issues Raised by Synthetic Biology Subject of Hastings Center Project Project completes third workshop as news of first synthetic bacterial genome announced (Garrison NY) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}