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- Title
Philosophy and Synthetic Biology: the BrisSynBio Experiment.
- Authors
Meacham, Darian; Prado Casanova, Miguel
- Abstract
The affinity or attraction of philosophy to "synthetic biology" starts already with the difficulty in defining synthetic biology or identifying clearly its origins (see [[1]] for a discussion of this from a molecular biology standpoint). In the EC's 2005 report on "Synthetic Biology Applying Engineering to Biology": Synthetic biology is the engineering of biology: the synthesis of complex, biologically based (or inspired) systems, which display functions that do not exist in nature. While synthetic biology undoubtedly utilizes novel techniques, including gene editing techniques such as CRISPR-cas9, base editing and gene drives, some have argued that it does not present a novel epistemological or ontological framework.[6] Preston [[9]], for example, argues: "Synthetic biology crosses no ontological lines that were not crossed already in the Neolithic.
- Subjects
SYNTHETIC biology; MORPHOLOGY; BIOENGINEERING; PHILOSOPHY of science
- Publication
NanoEthics, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1871-4757
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s11569-020-00369-1