EXCITING but terrifying. Powerful but scary. This is what some say about the emerging field of synthetic biology. Not surprising, perhaps, for an initiative that aims to “create life from scratch”, to “make life better” and to “make biology easier to engineer”.
View the original article here: Let’s get real on synthetic biology – New Scientist
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