Philosophical and Cultural Engagement
- Bridging scientific innovation with ethical and cultural dialogue
- Advocating for responsible and inclusive synthetic biology practices
Why should that be exciting at all?
Life on earth is a unity thanks to the existence of the universal genetic code shared by all living things on our planet Earth. Life-coding events and the basic chemistry of life are considered invariant due to horizontal gene transfer in all known biological taxa, making the universal genetic code the "lingua franca" of life on earth.
For at least 4 billion years, the genetic code for all living cells (with a few exceptions found mainly in various endosymbionts) is basically the same, so that all living beings use ('speak') the same "genetic language". Now, we want to change it.
In this context, we are convinced that our experiments and ideas represent the best approaches to answer a rather simple question:
Is it possible to fundamentally change the genetic code experimentally?
If not: Why?
If yes: How far we can go?
What are the societal, ethical and technological consequences of these achievements?
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