A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering
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Authors
Wintle, Bonnie C
Millett, Piers
Adam, Laura
Breitling, Rainer
Carlson, Rob
Casagrande, Rocco
Dando, Malcolm
Drexler, Eric
Edwards, Brett
Ellis, Tom
Evans, Nicholas G
Hammond, Richard
Kahl, Linda
Kuiken, Todd
Lichman, Benjamin R
Matthewman, Colette A
Napier, Johnathan A
ÓhÉigeartaigh, Seán S
Patron, Nicola J
Perello, Edward
Shapira, Philip
Tait, Joyce
Takano, Eriko
Publication Date
2017-11Journal Title
Elife
ISSN
2050-084X
Volume
6
Language
eng
Type
Article
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Wintle, B. C., Boehm, C., Rhodes, C., Molloy, J., Millett, P., Adam, L., Breitling, R., et al. (2017). A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering. Elife, 6 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30247
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.
Keywords
biological engineering, biorisk, ecology, expert elicitation, foresight, horizon scanning, human biology, medicine, synthetic biology
Sponsorship
BBSRC (BB/L014130/1)
Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) (177155)
Identifiers
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30247
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273786
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Attribution 4.0 International, Attribution 4.0 International