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Synthetic Biology: Life, Jim, but Not As We Know It

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Design by Evolution

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Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s classic tale of horror, warns of the perils of hubris: of the terrible fate that awaits when Man plays God and attempts to create life. Molecular biologists are clearly not listening. Not content with merely inserting the occasional gene into the genome of an existing organism. they are developing a whole new field, Synthetic Biology, which aims to engineer from first principles organisms with desirable, controllable qualities.

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    Jennifer Hallinan

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    Zbigniew Michalewicz

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Hallinan, J. (2008). Synthetic Biology: Life, Jim, but Not As We Know It. In: Hingston, P.F., Barone, L.C., Michalewicz, Z. (eds) Design by Evolution. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74111-4_4

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