Synthetic Biology In The Future

As you have heard, synthetic biology is an emerging technology that has made great advancements in a short amount of time. Though the public’s capacity to imagine misuse scenarios as a result of new developments in synthetic biology are vast, in reality institutional and structural capacities remain limited. Taking these limitations into account, synthetic biology still has an incredible amount of potential. This potential has implications for how America addresses its security concerns in the future. The synthetic biology community and field is and has taken these concerns seriously; much of the groundwork for a strong security framework has been thought through. XXXX
Overview and History of Synthetic Biology Synthetic biology is a form of …show more content…
In the short to medium term, synthetic biology is more of an enabling technology. In this capacity it can help streamline knowledge around applications that may not be dependent upon synthetic biology, but may come around cheaper and more reliably as a result of synthetic biology. For example, TKTK.
In the long term, synthetic biology could evolve into a full biological engineering discipline; this would bring a significant increase of players and money to the field. This would greatly professionalize the industry. It is at this stage that the tools, techniques, and approaches needed to do the extremely sophisticated work of developing deadly pathogens may be possible. However, negative aspects of potential synthetic biology advances are not the only area for growth; “the creation of broad-spectrum vaccines may give the public health community the ability to vaccinate the country 's entire population against both endemic diseases and biological weapons. A bioweapon inoculation may someday be as com­mon as other childhood