Highlights•Genetic modification and gene drives can help conserve and restore
biodiversity.•'Conservationist synthetic biology'pose environmental risks and social …

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity
conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between …

Synthetic biology is a rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field of science and engineering that
aims to redesign living systems through reprogramming genetic information. The field has …

The world's biodiversity is in crisis. Synthetic biology has the potential to transform
biodiversity conservation, both directly and indirectly, in ways that are negative and positive …

The outdoor use of organisms modified with gene drives—emerging biotechnologies of
biased inheritance—could further human well-being and biodiversity conservation, yet also …

So far, conservation scientists have paid little attention to synthetic biology; this is
unfortunate as the technology is likely to transform the operating space within which …

Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons |
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Synthetic biology represents a recent and explicit attempt to make biology easier to
engineer, and through this to open up the design space of genetic engineering to a wider …

With the promise to address societal challenges by engineering life, synthetic biology claims
the authority to declare what technological futures are possible, desirable, and good. This …

During 2007 and 2008 synthetic biology moved from the manifesto stage to research
programs. As of 2009, synthetic biology is ramifying; to ramify means to produce …