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ArticleEMBO reports2012

Engineering and ethical perspectives in synthetic biology. Rigorous, robust and predictable designs, public engagement and a modern ethical framework are vital to the continued success of synthetic biology.

James Anderson, Natalja Strelkowa, Guy-Bart Stan, Thomas Douglas, Julian Savulescu, Mauricio Barahona, Antonis Papachristodoulou

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Article in EMBO reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Imagining an ethics for synthetic biology.Frontiers in genetics · 2026
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  6. Towards an engineering theory of evolution.Nature communications · 2021
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  7. Advances in Synthetic Biology and Biosafety Governance.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021
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  14. Developments in the tools and methodologies of synthetic biology.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2014
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  17. Tuning the dials of Synthetic Biology.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

James AndersonDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
Natalja Strelkowa
Guy-Bart Stan
Thomas Douglas
Julian Savulescu
Mauricio Barahona
Antonis Papachristodoulou

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F018479/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G020434/1Wellcome Trust 080711/Z/06/ZWellcome Trust 086041Wellcome Trust WT087211
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Bioethical IssuesBiotechnologyGenetic EngineeringModels, BiologicalResearch DesignSynthetic Biology

Identifiers

PMID22699939
PMCPMC3389334

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