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“Life” is a central concept in multiple cultures and academic disciplines. Reports on “human-made life” in the context of synthetic biology provide an interesting opportunity to introduce and compare different notions of the central concept of “life” and to discuss the idea of artificial life....

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Published in:Worldviews
Main Author: Deplazes-Zemp, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Worldviews
Further subjects:B artificial life biotechnology cultural variety definitions of life synthetic biology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:“Life” is a central concept in multiple cultures and academic disciplines. Reports on “human-made life” in the context of synthetic biology provide an interesting opportunity to introduce and compare different notions of the central concept of “life” and to discuss the idea of artificial life.
ISSN:1568-5357
Contains:In: Worldviews
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685357-01701001