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http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/5142
Press Release
ETC Group, Canada/USA
5/20/2010
SYNTHIA IS ALIVE AND BREEDING: PANACEA OR PANDORA'S BOX?
(EDITED FOR LENGTH)
As Craig Venter announces lab-made life, ETC=20
Group calls for Global Moratorium on Synthetic=20
Biology.
In a paper published today in the journal=20
Science, the J. Craig Venter Institute and=20
Synthetic Genomics Inc announced the laboratory=20
creation of the world=EDs first self-reproducing=20
organism whose entire genome was built from=20
scratch by a machine. The construction of this=20
synthetic organism, anticipated and dubbed=20
"Synthia" by the ETC Group three years ago, will=20
stir a firestorm of controversy over the ethics=20
of building artificial life and the implications=20
of the largely unknown field of synthetic biology.
According to Pat Mooney, Executive Director of=20
ETC Group, "It is much more likely to cause a=20
whole new set of problems governments and society=20
are ill-prepared to address.
"This is the quintessential Pandora's box moment=20
- like the splitting of the atom or the cloning=20
of Dolly the sheep. We will all have to deal with=20
the fall-out from this alarming experiment,"=20
comments Jim Thomas of the ETC Group. "Synthetic=20
biology is a high-risk profit-driven field,=20
building organisms out of parts that are still=20
poorly understood. We know that lab-created=20
life-forms can escape, become biological weapons,=20
and that their use threatens existing natural=20
biodiversity. Most worrying of all, Craig Venter=20
is handing this powerful technology to the=20
world's most irresponsible and environmentally=20
damaging industry by partnering with the likes of=20
BP and Exxon to hasten the commercialization of=20
synthetic life-forms."
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