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20.06.2011 | Second Synthetic Biology Newsletter

The Synthetic Biology Newsletter gives an update on current societal, ethical and scientific developments in synthetic biology. The newsletter has been jointly commissioned by COGEM and Rathenau Institute and was created by LIS Consult and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The second edition of the newsletter covers the following subjects:

  • Inside the work of the United States Presidential Bioethics Commission
  • More on dominant frames and discourses in the debate on synthetic biology
  • Vaccines: the first commercial application of synthetic biology?
  • Do-It-Yourself biology: The re-emergence of citizen science
  • Biosecurity at the science-policy nexus: Developing a vision for the future
  • BIO:FICTION: Where Science and Arts meet


Download the second Synthetic Biology newsletter