Editorial: Innovative Strategies From Synthetic Biology and Bacterial Pathways to Master Biochemical Environmental Challenges

Eisenhaber, Frank; Thakar, Juilee; Ponte-Sucre, Alicia; Dandekar, Thomas

doi:10.3389/fbioe.2021.828632

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“…The term Anthropocene (Wodak, 2020) is used in the current philosophical literature (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018) with reference to the current geological age, seen as the period in which human activity was the dominant influence on climate and the environment. By analogy, synthetic biology is considered by us as a marker of the Anthropocene, because it extends the dominant influence of humans on the biological in its deepest sense, to the level of the constituent elements of living things -cells and genes -that it reconstructs in shapes and varieties designed by the researchers who make them (Eisenhaber et al, 2022). Their need and continuity with existing biodiversity is questionable -both ontologically and ethically.…”

Section: I1 Synthetic Biology As a Spiritual Marker Of The Anthropocenementioning

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Synthetic Biology - Cultural and Anthropological Perspectives

Macovei

2022

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This article aims to make an analysis of the cultural and anthropological issues raised by synthetic biology. The novelty of the field makes it relatively difficult to compose a comprehensive analysis, even for philosophers with experience, but who are not familiar with the specifics of the field. The article will follow the synthesis of the models of ethical decision applicable in the field of ethical evaluation of technologies from a cultural and anthropological perspective, their critical analysis and will highlight the limitations of each model, as well as a possible synthesis of a model of ethical evaluation of technologies. Afterwords, it can be decided whether a particular technology - such as those involved in synthetic biology - poses risks to the environment, to those involved in research, to future generations (including humans, but not only), to humanity as a whole or to present or future ecosystems.

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Section: I1 Synthetic Biology As a Spiritual Marker Of The Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

Synthetic Biology - Cultural and Anthropological Perspectives

Macovei

2022

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Editorial: Innovative Strategies From Synthetic Biology and Bacterial Pathways to Master Biochemical Environmental Challenges

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Synthetic Biology - Cultural and Anthropological Perspectives

Synthetic Biology - Cultural and Anthropological Perspectives

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