Tác giả: Margret Engelhard

‘Synthetic biology’ is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to ‘create life’, primarily by using engineering principles to design and mo …

Synthetic biology is a dynamic, young, ambitious, attractive, and heterogeneous scientific discipline. It is constantly developing and changing, which makes societal evaluation of this emerging new s …

Der Mangel an Spenderorganen in der Transplantationsmedizin ist ein Thema von hoher gesellschaftlicher Relevanz. Da jedes Jahr in Deutschland 1.000 Patienten auf der Warteliste sterben, darf die Gese …

Recent scientific advances have made it possible to produce biopharmaceuticals in genetically modified plants and animals, such as maize, tobacco, goats, and chickens. This new branch of biotechnolog …

Recently, the first ‘zoopharming’ product has reached market approval: it is a recombinant human protein for medical use that is produced in the milk of transgenic goats. In addition, other transgeni …