Saturday, December 31, 2011

Synthetic Biology and the future

I found the following video on Paul Levy's "Not Running a Hospital" blog. Engineering living beings is certainly exciting and filled with sober questions about what may be possible. I wonder about the applicability of our patent systems. I suppose that our legal scholars and others have already concluded that life (to a point) can be owned by those who "create" it.

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