Extreme Genetic Engineering An Introduction to Synthetic Biology

This is a good pdf file I found, Please, someone read it!
[link to www.etcgroup.org]

Some of what is in this pdf,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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1: Making Minimal Microbes – Post-modern Genomics.....................................................​........................... 13
2: Assembly Line DNA – “Lego” Life-Forms to Order........................................................​........................... 15
3: Building Artificial Cells from the Bottom Up – Ersatz Evolution....................................................​......... 17
4: Pathway Engineering – Bug Sweatshops...................................................​.................................................. 19
5: Expanding Earth’s Genetic System – Alien Genetics.....................................................​............................ 21

I. Building a Better Bio-Weapon – What does synthetic biology mean for bioweapons?............................ 23
II. The New Synthetic Energy Agenda – Rebooting Biofuels.....................................................​................... 27
III. Synthesizing New Monopolies from Scratch – Synthetic Biology and Intellectual Monopoly.............. 32
IV. Synthetic Conservation – What are the implications of gene synthesis and digital DNA for
conservation of genetic resources and the politics of biodiversity?................................................​....... 36


Using engineering
concepts borrowed from electronics
and computing, synthetic biologists
are building simplified versions of
bacteria, re-programming DNA as a
computing medium and assembling
new genetic systems that are humandirected

When asked by interviewers if they
are playing God, Venter’s colleague
Hamilton Smith gives a characteristically
hubristic response: “We don’t
play.”64

control public discourse or
determine regulatory frameworks

synthetic
biology illuminati, raised $13
million to found their own synthetic
biology start-up