A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering
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Abstract
Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore
these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture a range of perspectives on the opportunities
and risks presented by biological engineering. We first identified 70 potential issues, and then used an iterative
process to prioritise 20 issues that we considered to be emerging, to have potential global impact, and to be
relatively unknown outside the field of biological engineering. The issues identified may be of interest to
researchers, businesses and policy makers in sectors such as health, energy, agriculture and the environment.
these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture a range of perspectives on the opportunities
and risks presented by biological engineering. We first identified 70 potential issues, and then used an iterative
process to prioritise 20 issues that we considered to be emerging, to have potential global impact, and to be
relatively unknown outside the field of biological engineering. The issues identified may be of interest to
researchers, businesses and policy makers in sectors such as health, energy, agriculture and the environment.
Date Issued
2017-11-14
Date Acceptance
2017-10-26
Citation
eLife, 2017, 6
ISSN
2050-084X
Publisher
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Journal / Book Title
eLife
Volume
6
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article is distributed under the
terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use and
redistribution provided that the
original author and source are
credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
GLOBAL CONSERVATION
INFECTIOUS-DISEASES
HORIZON SCAN
GENE DRIVE
GENOME
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
MICROBIOME
ORGANISMS
SCIENCE
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
e30247