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SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

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Ethical Issues – A certain Concern It is the perceivedunnaturalness of syntheticbiology which is most likelyto give rise to ethical alarm.Statements to the effect thatthe next 50 years of DNAevolution will take place―not in Nature but in thelaboratory and clinic‖(Benner 2004:785),accompanied by inventionssuch as plants that producespider silk, clearly challengeeveryday understandings ofDr.T.V.Rao MD nature and our place in it. 39

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