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| - | The | + | The ethical research was initially based on the work of the TUDelft iGEM team 2008. The main reason to focus on reductionism and the notions of life was due to its interesting complexity, the lack of literature on this subject linked to synthetic biology, and the talk of Dr. Caplan from the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. The possibility of doing a survey amongst a large group of people involved in synthetic biology seemed a great opportunity to raise the awareness of these complex ethical issues and to gain insight on how the synthetic biology community responds to them. |
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| + | Our approach was to first make an overview of the main ethical concerns that appear in scientific literature on synthetic biology. The next step was to investigate these issues and make an overview of the responsibilities of researchers in the field. | ||
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Revision as of 10:34, 7 October 2009
Methods
The research on ethical issues in synthetic biology has been done parallel to the project on the bacterial relay race, and consists out of two main parts:
- Literature research
- Survey
The ethical research was initially based on the work of the TUDelft iGEM team 2008. The main reason to focus on reductionism and the notions of life was due to its interesting complexity, the lack of literature on this subject linked to synthetic biology, and the talk of Dr. Caplan from the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. The possibility of doing a survey amongst a large group of people involved in synthetic biology seemed a great opportunity to raise the awareness of these complex ethical issues and to gain insight on how the synthetic biology community responds to them.
Literature research
Our approach was to first make an overview of the main ethical concerns that appear in scientific literature on synthetic biology. The next step was to investigate these issues and make an overview of the responsibilities of researchers in the field.
