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- Title
Biosecurity and Open-Source Biology: The Promise and Peril of Distributed Synthetic Biological Technologies.
- Authors
Evans, Nicholas; Selgelid, Michael
- Abstract
In this article, we raise ethical concerns about the potential misuse of open-source biology (OSB): biological research and development that progresses through an organisational model of radical openness, deskilling, and innovation. We compare this organisational structure to that of the open-source software model, and detail salient ethical implications of this model. We demonstrate that OSB, in virtue of its commitment to openness, may be resistant to governance attempts.
- Subjects
BIOSECURITY; BIOLOGICAL research; BIOTECHNOLOGY ethics; OPEN source software; BIOTERRORISM; DESKILLING (Labor)
- Publication
Science & Engineering Ethics, 2015, Vol 21, Issue 4, p1065
- ISSN
1353-3452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11948-014-9591-3