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Genome editing: the dynamics of continuity, convergence, and change in the engineering of life
- Abstract:
- Genome editing enables very accurate alterations to DNA. It promises profound and potentially disruptive changes in healthcare, agriculture, industry, and the environment. This paper presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the contemporary development of genome editing and the tension between continuity and change. It draws on the idea that actors involved in innovation are guided by “sociotechnical regimes” composed of practices, institutions, norms, and cultural beliefs. The analysis focuses on how genome editing is emerging in different domains and whether this marks continuity or disruption of the established biotechnology regime. In conclusion, it will be argued that genome editing is best understood as a technology platform that is being powerfully shaped by this existing regime but is starting to disrupt the governance of biotechnology. In the longer term is it set to converge with other powerful technology platforms, which together will fundamentally transform the capacity to engineer life.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/14636778.2020.1730166
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- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
- Journal:
- New Genetics and Society More from this journal
- Pages:
- 1-24
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-02-10
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1469-9915
- ISSN:
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1463-6778
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English
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1100963
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pubs:1100963
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2020-04-30
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- Martin et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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