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xenobiology
noun
The speculative biology of extraterrestrial life forms
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This article provides a general taxonomy in which the development of bioengineering is classified in five stages (DNA analysis, bio-circuits, minimal genomes, protocells, xenobiology) from the familiar to the unknown, with implications for safety and security, industrial development, and the development of bioengineering and biotechnology as an interdisciplinary field.
What xenobiology could bring about is no less than to provide an isolated genetic enclave within the natural world.
Although it is early days, xenobiology might solve the ultimate challenge of providing re-liable Certainty of Containment via a genetic firewall.
48– 50 When discussing societal aspects of xenobiology today we need to take the following aspects into account: 51 Biosafety: what is the actual probability that XNA life fails on any of the 10 specifications mentioned above?
What the origin of life research community, exobiologists, system chemists and synthetic biologists have in common, is the view that unusual life forms – in other words: xenobiology – could either be found on or beyond Earth, or be deliberately created in the laboratory (Fig. 1).
Creation of "alien" or "weird" life in the laboratory, in other words, advances in xenobiology research, will not only contribute to a better understanding of the origin of life, but will definitely expand our capabilities to provide safer biotechnology production tools for human and environmental needs.
Xenobiology could easily trigger the next paradigm change in the way we understand nature and life.
Xenobiology could become a fundamental safety device capable of limiting any kind of genetic interaction with the natural world.
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