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Kallergi A, Asin‐Garcia E, Martins dos Santos VAP, Landeweerd L. Context matters: On the road to responsible biosafety technologies in synthetic biology. EMBO Rep 2021; 22:e51227. [PMID: 33369847 PMCID: PMC7788449 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202051227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Biosafety is a major challenge for developing for synthetic organisms. An early focus on application and their context could assist with the design of appropriate genetic safeguards.
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- Amalia Kallergi
- Institute for Science in SocietyRadboud UniversityNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic BiologyWageningen University & ResearchWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic BiologyWageningen University & ResearchWageningenThe Netherlands
- LifeGlimmer GmbHBerlinGermany
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- Institute for Science in SocietyRadboud UniversityNijmegenThe Netherlands
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Trump BD, Cegan J, Wells E, Poinsatte-Jones K, Rycroft T, Warner C, Martin D, Perkins E, Wood MD, Linkov I. Co-evolution of physical and social sciences in synthetic biology. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2019; 39:351-365. [PMID: 30727764 DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2019.1566203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Emerging technologies research often covers various perspectives in disciplines and research areas ranging from hard sciences, engineering, policymaking, and sociology. However, the interrelationship between these different disciplinary domains, particularly the physical and social sciences, often occurs many years after a technology has matured and moved towards commercialization. Synthetic biology may serve an exception to this idea, where, since 2000, the physical and the social sciences communities have increasingly framed their research in response to various perspectives in biological engineering, risk assessment needs, governance challenges, and the social implications that the technology may incur. This paper reviews a broad collection of synthetic biology literature from 2000-2016, and demonstrates how the co-development of physical and social science communities has grown throughout synthetic biology's earliest stages of development. Further, this paper indicates that future co-development of synthetic biology scholarship will assist with significant challenges of the technology's risk assessment, governance, and public engagement needs, where an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to foster sustainable, risk-informed, and societally beneficial technological advances moving forward.
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- Benjamin D Trump
- a Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education , US Army Corps of Engineers, Oak Ridge , TN , USA.,b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- c SOL Engineering Services, LLC , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- c SOL Engineering Services, LLC , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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- b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center , Vicksburg , MS , USA
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Finkel AM, Trump BD, Bowman D, Maynard A. A “solution-focused” comparative risk assessment of conventional and synthetic biology approaches to control mosquitoes carrying the dengue fever virus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10669-018-9688-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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