is a pleasure as always enjoy Networks Punset with Eduard and their guests. In the program last weekend (no 58 ), Played the fascinating world of synthetic biology , a branch of biology, genomics that focuses on the study of interactions and relationships that lead out proteins that are part of the cell .
His guest, Luis Serrano is one of the foremost experts on the subject worldwide and we are fortunate to have their equipment and research in Spain. At the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona holds its efforts to unravel the mechanisms explaining those relations that exist between proteins. Thus, we may create or modify organisms as bacteria, that are capable of producing within a cell, the reactions necessary to cure such diseases as cancer, Alzheimer's disease.
At the end of the wonderful and entertaining talk, Luis Serrano Punset question by philosophical ethical questions that may arise from the creation of synthetic life in a laboratory. The eminent researcher replied that religious debates aside the idea of \u200b\u200bplaying God, the true ethical, philosophical and social development of this type of research is the enormous gap that can be created between those countries that can pay these advances and On the other hand, countries that do not have that capability.
Clearly, and Luis Serrano mention it clearly, that one of the more obvious forms of inequality in the nearest future, not only because of economic or productive type, but of knowledge. Science and progress will establish a dividing line between rich and poor societies, where wealth and poverty can not be measured in exclusive economic vision, but in the possession of knowledge and implementation capacity. As a sociologist, relationships and social consequences of science and knowledge are one of the topics that I love and attraction. Even
Mr. Serrano is allowed to play the role of science fiction writer, to say that the possibilities for changing that may enable synthetic biology, opening the possibility of a real genetic change in humans, ie, to cause an evolutionary change. This will, of giving the event, the existence of more advanced human genetically speaking against others who can not afford it.
Fascinating, is not it, what do you think, dear readers? I have wanted to know their views on the subject.
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