De células vivas, teléfonos celulares y desplantes tecnológicos

Diego González-Halphen

Resumen


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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