Through scenarios and case studies, we must create awareness
of the implications of synthetic biology. As an interdisciplinary
field, it needs to be integrated into many courses of studies. For
example, the universities of Oxford, Bristol, and Warwick have
founded a joint doctoral program that admits students from engineering,
biology, biochemistry, physics, plant sciences, chemistry,
statistics, mathematics, and computing. In addition, synthetic biology
research should be developed with a global, open dialogue
about the scientific, social, and economic implications, without