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Team:Newcastle/HP/Ethics
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Ethics
Public Health
Synthetic biology is a rapidly emerging field, but it is still in a very early stage of its development. It is vital to encourage debate with relevant stock holders and the general public in order to investigate the ethics that arise from this research. Therefore, in this section we aim to discuss the ethics relevant to our project.
PEALS
On the 1st of August, our team had a discussion with the executive director, Professor Janice McLaughlin from Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Centre regarding ethics and biosafety. She helped us identify the relevant sock holders to our project and brought our attention to some topics that we may wish to explore further.
Agriculture
One of our project sub themes involves inserting L-forms in to plants, visualising them and considering their benefits. These plants include crop plants, therefore this topic may raise concerns regarding agriculture and farming. We are interested in the opinions, ideas or concerns that an agriculture representative may have regarding this topic.
Scientists
The Public
Environmental Safety
Future
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