Your reading for this activity introduces you to many of the issues surrounding synthetic biology, including policy, government funding, safety,...

For our last module question, you are an ethicist in the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. You and the other members have been asked to assess whether we are ready to embrace a technology that allows us to manipulate existing DNA to create and introduce new organisms into our environment. As you consider the issues, debates and conundrums juxtaposed against the range of issues you have covered over the past eight weeks, discuss whether you agree or disagree that we have learned enough from an ethical perspective to breach this ‘new frontier”? Remember to include the justifications from ethical analysis or theory for your response, rather than simply providing an opinion.

Genetic engineering is a disputable and entangled subject, as there are not just worries about theadvantages and dangers to nature and human wellbeing, however there are additionally worriesabout...