ArticleeLife2017
A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering.
Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Performance Enhancement.Science and engineering ethics · 2025Article
- A global forum on synthetic biology: the need for international engagement.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Review: biological engineering for nature-based climate solutions.Journal of biological engineering · 2022Review
- Future trends in synthetic biology in Asia.Advanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2021Article
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- What is quantitative plant biology?Quantitative plant biology · 2021Review
- Bioengineering horizon scan 2020.eLife · 2020Article
- Bio-informational futures: The convergence of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology.EMBO reports · 2020Article
- Resources to Discover and Use Short Linear Motifs in Viral Proteins.Trends in biotechnology · 2020Review
- Towards Building a Plant Cell Atlas.Trends in plant science · 2019Review
- Dynamical Task Switching in Cellular Computers.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Assessing Cyberbiosecurity Vulnerabilities and Infrastructure Resilience.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2019Article
- Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture a range of perspectives on the opportunities and risks presented by biological engineering. We first identified 70 potential issues, and then used an iterative process to prioritise 20 issues that we considered to be emerging, to have potential global impact, and to be relatively unknown outside the field of biological engineering. The issues identified may be of interest to researchers, businesses and policy makers in sectors such as health, energy, agriculture and the environment.
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