Life as it could be, the realm of synthetic biology Newspapers today are full of accounts of the future marvels of “synthetic biology,” a new approach to engineering life. But, how new is it? Dr. Luis Campos takes us through the surprising history in an informal 20-minute talk.
Dr. Luis Campos is Luis A. Campos is a historian of science whose scholarship brings together archival discoveries with contemporary fieldwork at the intersection of biology and society.
He has written widely on the history of genetics, synthetic biology, and astrobiology and is the author of Radium and the Secret of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2015), co-editor of Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2010) and Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
This May 8, 2017 science cafe program was the first of a series funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant (#1611953) whose principal investigator was Karen Rader, historian of science Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Humanities and Sciences in Richmond, Virginia.
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