Social and Ethical Implications
The technology development in synthetic biology is actively accompanied by an intense discourse on the thereto-related social and ethical implications. This page provides an overview of the current state of research in this field.
- Parliamentary Evening Synthetic Biology.
Organized for the first time by the DFG, the National Academie of Sciences Leopoldina, and the Academy of Technical Sciences, acatech.
Comment by the DFG, acatech and Leopoldina to Synthetic Biology (in German)
- Synbiosafe Project (EU): Safety and Ethical Aspects of Synthetic Biology.
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Synthetic Biology Project.
- SynBERC: Human practices.
- The Hastings Center: Ethical issues in synthetic biology.
- Opinion of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission
- Bericht der Eidgenössischen Ethikkommission für die Biotechnologie im Ausserhumanbereich EKAH.
- Publication of the Rathenau Institut, Niederlande: De Vriend, H (2006): Constructing Life. Early social reflections on the emerging field of synthetic biology.
- Comments of the ETC Group, Kanada (NGO)
- Commentary in Nature Biotechnology: Boldt J, Müller O (2008): Newtons of the leaves of grass. Nat Biotechnol 26(4), 387-389
- Publication of the EKAH: Boldt J, Müller O, Maio G. (2009): Synthetische Biologie. Eine ethisch-philosophische Analyse.