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Commissioners debate synthetic biology’s rewards, risks

It is a subject so new and so fast-evolving that scientists disagree on how to define it. The subject, synthetic biology, has many definitions, said Dr. James Wagner, President of Emory University and Vice Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. “We asked for a definition and we were rebuffed,’’ Wagner [...]