Biosecurity and Open-Source Biology: The Promise and Peril of Distributed Synthetic Biological Technologies.

In this article, we raise ethical concerns about the potential misuse of open-source biology (OSB): biological research and development that progresses through an organisational model of radical openness, deskilling, and innovation. We compare this organisational structure to that of the open-source...

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 1065 - 1084
Autores principales: Evans, Nicholas, Selgelid, Michael
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2015
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