References

Synthetic biology in general
Pleiss, 2006 | Jürgen Pleiss, The promise of synthetic biology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Volume 73, Number 4, page 735-739
Benner, 2005 | Steven A. Benner1 & A. Michael Sismour, Synthetic biology, Nature Reviews Genetics, volume 6, page 533-543
McDaniel and Weiss, 2005 | Ryan McDaniel and Ron Weiss, Advances in synthetic biology: on the path from prototypes to applications, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2005, Volume 16, page 476–483
Andrianantoandro, 2006 | Ernesto Andrianantoandro, Subhayu Basu, David K Karig & Ron Weiss, Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline, Molecular Systems Biology, Article number: 2006.0028
European Commission, 2005 | NEST High-Level Expert Group, Synthetic Biology - Applying Engineering to Biology, Project report, 2005, EUR 21796
Deplazes, 2009 | Anna Deplazes, Piecing together a puzzle. An exposition of synthetic biology, EMBO reports, 2009, Volume 10, page 428 - 432

Ethics in synthetic biology
Gorman, 2006 | Brian J. Gorman, Biosecurity and Secrecy Policy: Problems, Theory, and a Call for Executive Action, I/S: a journal of law and policy, 2006, Volume 2, page 53-102
Tucker, 2006 | Jonathan B. Tucker, Raymond A. Zilinskas, The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology, The New Atlantis, 2006, Number 12, page 25-45 
Parens, 2006 | Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston, and Jacob Moses, Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology: An Overview of the Debates, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, June 24, 2009
Church, 2005 | George Church, Let us go forth and safely multiply, Nature, 2005, volume 438, page 423
Samuel, 2009 | Gabrielle N Samuel, Michael J Selgelid & Ian Kerridge, Managing the unimaginable. Regulatory responses to the challenges posed by synthetic biology and synthetic genomics, EMBO reports, 2009, volume 10, number 1, page 7–11
Balmer, 2008 | Andrew Balmer & Paul Martin, Synthetic Biology - Social and Ethical Challenges, Independent review of the Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, May 2008
Boldt, 2008 | Joachim Boldt & Oliver Müller, Newtons of the leaves of grass, Nature Biotechnology, 2008, Volume 26, Number 4, page 387-389
Mitra, 2009 |Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Markus Schmidt, Helge Torgersen, Anna Deplazes & Nikola Biller-Andorno, Of Newtons and heretics, Nature Biotechnology, 2009, volume 27, page 321 - 322

Reductionism
Benner, 2003 | Steven A. Benner, Synthetic biology: Act natural, Nature, 2009, volume 421, page 118
Caplan, 2008 | Arthur Caplan, Bioethics grows up, PLoS Biology, 2008, volume 6, number 4, page 95
Cho, 1999 | Mildred K. Cho, David Magnus, Arthur L. Caplan, Daniel McGee, and the Ethics of Genomics Group, Ethical Considerations in Synthesizing a Minimal Genome, Science,1999, Volume 286, number 5447, page 2087 - 2090
Clark, 2000 | Thomas W. Clark, Playing God, Carefully.(human genome research is nearing completion of its first phase and some ethicists are questioning the implications), Humanist, May 2000
Pace, 2009 | Heather Pace, Playing God with Synthetic Life? Starting with the minimal genome project, The triple helix, Cornell University, Easter 2009, page 8-9
Short, 1997 | Jay M. Short, Molecular Evolution: Recombinant approaches for accessing biodiversity, Nature Biotechnology, volume 15, page 1322-1323
Regenmortel, 2004 | Marc H.V. Van Regenmortel, Reductionism and complexity in molecular biology, EMBO reports, 2004, volume 5, number 11, page 1016–1020
Agapakis, 2009 | Christina M. Agapakis and Pamela A. Silver, Synthetic biology: exploring and exploiting genetic modularity through the design of novel biological networks, Molecular BioSystems, 2009, volume 5, page 704-713
The hasting centre, 2008
Calvert, 2008
Peterson, 2001
Check, 2002
Ray, 1993

In the News
Conner, 2008 | Steve Connor, Playing God: the man who would create artificial life, The Independent, 25 January 2008
Caplan, 2009 | Arthur Caplan, The Wide Angle: Do Synthetic Biologists Play God?, Discovery Tech, August 3 2009