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SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: Time for a Synthetic Biology Asilomar?
Dan Ferber
Synthetic microbes might one day clean up pollutants, produce hydrogen for fuel, improve gene therapy, and more. But synthetic biology also raises some real dangers, bioethicists say.