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Synthetic Biology

On epistemological black boxes, human self-assurance, and the hybridity of practices and values

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In 2010, when J Craig Venter and his group published the experiment in which the DNA of a bacterium had been completely replaced by a synthesized DNA (Gibson et al. 2010), the international press responded with excitement.

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Müller, O. (2016). Synthetic Biology. In: Boldt, J. (eds) Synthetic Biology. Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10988-2_3

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