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Applications and ethics of computer-designed organisms

Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Computer-designed organisms — biobots, such as xenobots — are at the intersection of synthetic developmental biology and machine learning. This technology, which enables the evolution of real, living forms to take place in a virtual world, is part of an emerging new research field with applications in biomedicine and engineering, and raises profound philosophical questions. Michael Levin and colleagues discuss how computer-designed organisms ― biobots and xenobots ― are driving a new research field with applications in biomedicine and engineering, and associated ethical and philosophical questions.
DOI: 10.1038/s41580-020-00284-z
Institutions: Tufts University, Harvard University, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, University of Vermont, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3048540771
FWCI: 15.83
Cites: 10
Cited by: 24
Related to: 10