Background Materials
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Synthetic Biology
Meeting One
- Background Material for Commission Meeting on Synthetic Biology, July 8-9, 2010
Presentations and More Background Readings
- Commission Chair Amy Gutmann’s Plenary Address at Global Summit of National Bioethics Advisory Bodies (Gutmann, July 2010)
- Overview and Context of the Technology of Synthetic Biology (Endy, July 2010)
- The Context of Current Practices in Synthetic Biology (Carlson, July 2010)
- Applications of Synthetic Biology (Prather, July 2010)
- Risks of Environmental Releases of Synthetic GEO’s (Snow, July 2010)
- The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Suggestions for a Comprehensive Approach (Buchanan, July 2010)
- The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Suggestions for a Comprehensive Approach (Buchanan and Powell, July 2010)
- Synthetic Biology, the Public and the Media (Rejeski, July 2010)
- Social and Ethical Aspects of Synthetic Biology in Europe (Schmidt, July 2010)
- Federal Oversight of Synthetic Biology Research (Patterson, July 2010)
- FBI Perspective: Addressing Synthetic Biology and Biosecurity (You, July 2010)