Making Life: A Comment on 'Playing God in Frankenstein's Footsteps: Synthetic Biology and the Meaning of Life' by Henk van den Belt (2009)

摘要

"Van den Belt recently examined the notion that synthetic biology and the creation of 'artificial' organisms are examples of scientists 'playing God'. Here I respond to some of the issues he raises, including some of his comments on my previous discussions of the value of the term 'life' as a scientific concept."