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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature Weight it felt like pushing backSynthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of scientists playing God? Synthetic Biology and Morality takes on