The dream of synthetic life generates recombinant organisms endowed with unpredictable risks (“el sueño de la razón produce monstruos”)

Gabriel Gachelin, Valerie Chansigaud

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This text answer the question, posted by the editor, on the philosophical, scientific and social problems followed from the synthetic ensemble of the modified genome of the bacteria M. Mycoides, announced in May 2010 by the J. Craig Venter Institute.


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