Nearly seven months ago, the J. Craig Venter Institute reported success in adding a synthetic genome to a bacterial cell and getting the cell to replicate using the new DNA. That prompted President Obama to ask his new bioethics-advisory commission to study the implications. The commission, led by Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, today reported back to Mr. Obama, suggesting that government agencies scrutinize synthetic biology more carefully but saying that no new federal regulations appear necessary.
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One Response to Synthetic Biology Warrants No New Regulations, Obama Is Told
glchew - March 23, 2011 at 6:28 pm
And this is why most basic research in Canada (or what’s left of it) will one day be run by people speaking Hindi or Mandarin – or any language from a nation that still values basic research. A previous Canadian government did the same thing to the once renowned Fisheries Research Board of Canada: they turned it from a bastion of fundamental marine research into an anemic scientific arm of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.