A sign of good engineering is taking into account what could go wrong and minimising the chances of bad outcomes. This is another aspect that synthetic biology could bring to the field of biology, and I hope it does.
One of the next articles in this series will be about biosafety and different methods to make sure things like xenobots won't cause problems if they escape into environment.
Promising... Just so long as we pay due regard to ethical and moral safeguards. And don't allow xenobots to escape into the environment.
A sign of good engineering is taking into account what could go wrong and minimising the chances of bad outcomes. This is another aspect that synthetic biology could bring to the field of biology, and I hope it does.
One of the next articles in this series will be about biosafety and different methods to make sure things like xenobots won't cause problems if they escape into environment.
Look forward to that. I for one will be much happier if xenobots are not permitted to escape into the environment at all...!