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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
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Is There a Public Concern About Synthetic Cells?
Sally Kohn: I'm going to play the devil's advocate here because Guy with a Jurassic Park tattoo grew up watching films like Blade Runner. He has this whole idea about engineering synthetic cells to help sort of terraform our planet to fight runaway climate change. And you have also talked about the idea of life bombs being able to drop cells and like seed biosphere and this kind of thing. So I'm curious, how have you thought through these questions about public concerns about the implications of your work and the possibility of unintended but were it ever to happen. She says she would love if my synthetic cells had the potential to leave the island and replicate on the main line, just by
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