Tendencias tecnológicas

  1. Javier Vicente Sánchez 1
  2. Domingo Marquina Díaz 1
  3. Pedro Lorenzo González 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Journal:
Cuadernos de estrategia

ISSN: 1697-6924

Year of publication: 2022

Issue Title: La amenaza biológica

Issue: 217

Pages: 189-224

Type: Article

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Abstract

The technological advances in the last years have allowed an important development of life sciences. In a global world in which technology is interconnected with multiple options, the development of a certain application for a purpose is rapidly adapted for its application in other fields, exponentially increasing the versatility of such advances. Bioinformatics development since the middle of the 20th century has allowed the design of new process, applications, and analytical protocols for biological data management, especially in the first decades of this century. The advances regarding structure, function, and engineering of nucleic acids, especially DNA, have been the power that has allow, and nowadays allows, the development of genetic engineering techniques. These procedures enable the development of new functions in different microorganisms or even the development of synthetic ones using the genetic information from databases. Science democratization, together with the protocols and knowledge that conforms it, has triggered the collaboration of different people, scientific or amateur. The misuse of the new technologies by some actors conforms its risk since technology is designed for good purposes. Every technological development designed with a good objective could cause, in any moment, a deliberated, or unintended, harm.

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