What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Jaydee Hanson (Part 2) We return to our interview earlier this year with Jaydee Hanson, co-author of The Principles For The Overesight of Synthetic Biology. Jaydee does policy work on new technologies for the Center for Food Safety. In the business for a long time, he gives a funny, matter of fact, and cynical account of regulators' machinations to shoehorn new technologies into regulatory frameworks devised decades before synthetic biology came along, and of companies' efforts to avoid them altogether. He also addresses questions of synthetic biology's present scope, its relationship to classic ethical questions (the commons, "playing God"), and equity issues raised by products in the pipeline.