Guest post by Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Patricia Balbon, and Danielle Griffin Almost a year ago today, MIT Technology Review broke…
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Social Sciences Lessons from Aristotle for Synthetic BiologistsRead more
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Social Sciences Entangled with Synthetic Yeast: Social Dimensions of the Sc2.0 projectRead more
By guest authors Erika Szymanski and Jane Calvert Whole-genome engineering appears to be moving forward apace. The first synthetic biology effort to…
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Social Sciences Can a new model help governance keep up with synthetic biology?Read more
Synthetic biology is moving at a rapid pace, and regulations will need to keep up to allow useful technologies to hit the…
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Social Sciences The historical anatomy of synthetic biology by Dominic BerryRead more
What are synthetic biologists doing to plants, and what are plants doing to synthetic biology? This question frames a series of laboratory…
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From the community Young Swiss scientists take a position on synthetic biology by Dr. Franziska OeschgerRead more
By Dr. Franziska Oeschger What are the hopes and fears connected to synthetic biology? Who should decide how this technology will be…
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Social Sciences Synthetic Biology’s Second WorldRead more
by Andy Balmer Secrecy has long been a part of scientific and innovation practices. Being an ethnographer of laboratories, one occasionally comes…
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From the community From the Community: Three Questions I get Asked | @AndyBalmer blogRead more
by Steven Burgess Ultimately scientists wish to make an impact on the world, be that discover fundamental information about how the world works…
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Social Sciences Taking a fresh look at hopes, fears and values associated with synthetic biology by Franziska OeschgerRead more
by Franziska Oeschger Synthetic biology has started to enter the market and public perception. An interdisciplinary panel of young scientists discusses the…
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Social Sciences From the Community: Acceleration, autonomy and responsibility | Making Science PublicRead more
March 18, 2016, by Brigitte Nerlich There is clearly a tension between accelerating research and development for economic benefits and fostering a…
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Social Sciences Frankenflies Sent To Defeat Monster Mosi: Zika in the English pressRead more
by Brigitte Nerlich, Carmen McLeod and Steven Burgess A coalition of the willing has unleashed a surge of Frankenflies at the frontline…
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Social Sciences From the Community: Precision metaphors in a messy biological world – Making Science PublicRead more
February 5, 2016, by Brigitte Nerlich Precision metaphors in a messy biological world The promises of nanoscience and nanotechnology have been framed…
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Social Sciences From the Community: ‘Pathways’ in science and society – Making Science Public BlogRead more
January 29, 2016, by Brigitte Nerlich ‘Pathways’ in science and society “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood; And sorry I could…
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