engineering and technological crises
type: Concept
narrower: biological engineering risk

biological engineering risk
type: Concept
definition: Following the rapid evolution of biotechnology and genomics in the 1990s, with sophisticated efforts to manipulate and engineer recombinant DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the onset of synthetic biology (or SynBio) in the 21st century may have been seen as a natural result of prior scientific research. But now SynBio, as it is often called, goes beyond mapping genomes and manipulating genes to the point where scientists and graduate student microbiologists not only are examining how to build life from scratch, and merge or transfer genomic material between different species, but are also experimenting with every conceivable combination of nucleic and amino acids and engineering new life-forms. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crisis Management; Biological Engineering Risk]
broader: engineering and technological crises

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: biological engineering risk