Blogs, papers and other resources relating to news of first synthetic life form
Updated 27/05/10
Podcast
Julian Savulescu interviewed on virtual Philosopher
Blogs on practicalethicsnews
Anders Sandberg: Today we lost the drug war
Bennett Foddy: Synthetic biology: eroding the moral distinctions between animate and inanimate.
Julian Savulescu:Playing God for the first time…
Tom Douglas:Venter creates bacterium controlled by a synthetic genome
Julian Savulescu: Changing
the Building Blocks of Life: Playing God and Being gods
Anders Sandberg: Humane Evolution
Blogs elsewhere:
Art Caplan: “What Does It Mean to Be Alive?” Bioethics.net
Tom Douglas and Julian Savulescu Artificial life means man can truly play God ABC The Drum Unleashed
William Crawley But is it really “artificial life”? Will and Testament blog BBC
Papers:
The
Dual-Use Dilemma, UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
2009.
The
Flip Side of Scientific Freedom, UK Parliamentary Office of Science
and Technology 2009.
Selgelid & Weir, Reflections
on the synthetic production of poliovirus, Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists 2010.
Selgelid & Weir, The
Mousepox Experience, EMBO Reports 2010.
Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome Gibson, Venter, Science 20/5/10
Media Reports and commentaries:
Ethics Concern over synthetic cell BBC
Julian Savulescu A matter of synthetic life and death: Venter’s artificial organism invention is fraught with peril NY Daily News