Read the most alarming thing today on biohacking

[Jo]

I just wanted to share with this group what I have read right now on New Scientist. You can find the article here:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428684.800-lets-get-real-on-synthetic-biology.html

Please make sure to read the "The Principles for the Oversight of Synthetic Biology." If this stuff gets implemented, we would all be affected.

[LDress]

I'm not concerned about that stuff getting implemented anytime soon, if at all, since getting anything implemented these days is a radical notion.  I've been working on the principles of oversight since 2005 and it continues to be a SLOW work in process.  What I am concerned about is the process.  It is still not as inclusive as it should be:

 tmblr.co/Z82MxvNFlMDG 

[Nathan McCorkle]

Laura is that your tumblr blog? The genspace and biocurious ppl are in SF meeting with FBI regarding biosecurity

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[ruphos]

LAB also has a few folks.

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"And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then be at least its warriors."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

[cluckj]

The two authors of that article have a paper from last year that I found interesting, about the governance of synthetic biology:

 

http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2011/4294977685.pdf

 

On Monday, June 11, 2012 2:52:01 PM UTC-4, Jo wrote: