Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Bottlenecks and opportunities for synthetic biology biosafety standards

  • Lei Pei,
  • Michele Garfinkel,
  • Markus Schmidt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29889-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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The lack of innovative standards for biosafety in synthetic biology is an unresolved policy gap that limits many potential applications in synthetic biology. We argue that a massive support for standardization in biosafety is required for synthetic biology to flourish.