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Our synthetic future

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Two prominent ethicists provide their views on the ethical debates surrounding synthetic biology.

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  1. Nigel M. de S. Cameron is at the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, Washington, DC, USA.,

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  2. Arthur Caplan is at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,

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  1. Nigel M de S Cameron
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Correspondence to Nigel M de S Cameron or Arthur Caplan.

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de S Cameron, N., Caplan, A. Our synthetic future. Nat Biotechnol 27, 1103–1105 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1209-1103

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