Designed to Order: Contemplating a Future Where Synthetic Human Cells Are Made on Demand

  • Tanner, C. (Organiser)
  • Megan Munsie (Organiser)
  • Mark Taylor (Organiser)
  • Rachel Ankeny (Organiser)
  • Joan Leach (Organiser)
  • Alison McLennan (Organiser)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course

Description

Designed to Order – An interdisciplinary workshop was hosted by the Centre for Stem Cell Systems and Melbourne Law School and supported through funding from a University of Melbourne Dyason Fellowship Grant awarded to Dr Claire Tanner, sought to begin a conversation around mammalian cell synthetic biology.

Science has now progressed to a stage where we may soon be able to redesign our own biology. Through understanding the componentry within our cells, it may be possible to rewrite our biological blueprint and design human cells with new functions, or even cells not seen in nature. This is the potential future of mammalian cell synthetic biology.

The event brought together a mix of scholars and stakeholders to consider the social goods that synthetic biology technologies should aspire to achieve, and the cross-disciplinary and governance practices and processes required to responsibly enable progress.

Period25 Oct 2018
Event typeWorkshop