These traits contrast with previous biocontainment strategies
involving synthetic organisms and energy sources, requiring hundreds of gene edits, awful lots of money and time, and which are so specialized as to make them impractical.
Not exact matches
Yet much of the document in fact focused on the debatable desirability of the goals of
synthetic biology, and on the need to acknowledge the complexities and uncertainties
involved in designing novel living
organisms — issues which concern many of those working in
synthetic biology and which can and should be the subject of open debate.
In its Thursday - issued report, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has given the go - ahead to research in the field of
synthetic biology — technology which
involves the creation of new
organisms via the synthesis and manipulation of DNA.
Modern or conventional farming methods that
involve the use of genetically modified
organisms (GMOs),
synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides simply did not exist back then.
While genetic engineering
involves the exchange of genes between species,
synthetic biology
involves artificially creating new genetic code and inserting it into
organisms.