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Synthetic Biology Debate

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Published on November 07, 2008 at 4:30am

Synthetic biology? Open-source biotechnology? If you aren't up on these concepts, the world is passing you by. Genetically engineered food crops are yesterday's news; today, advances in the field are thought to be accelerating faster than Moore's Law, the be-all-end-all benchmark for sci-tech geeks. Today, Drew Endy, a proponent of synthetic biology, squares off with technology activist Jim Thomas, a leading critic.
Mon., Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., 2008