Merry Christmas from the mannequins – and the rest of Medical Museion ;-)

Risky Business?

What the future holds for synthetic biology is unclear, and how it should be regulated is controversial. Media coverage often focuses on utopias or dystopias: save-the-world science vs. nightmares of biology run amok.

But things are rarely so extreme. An article in New Scientist magazine argued that the focus on radical hopes and dangers ”distracts us from less exciting but more pressing questions. What are synthetic biologists actually doing? How easy, or difficult, is it proving?”

By opening up a lab we invite visitors to get past the hype and explore what goes on in DIY and synthetic biology.

• Open up the glass cases of the museum and laboratory, and let the objects out…

• Bring the weird past, the opaque present, and ambivalent future of medicine together.

• Explore medical science as part of our culture, sensation, and everyday speech.

• Unwrap medical science in the making – finding not finished facts but evolving knowledge.

• Matchmake curators, researchers, publics, scientists, artists, doctors, and patients.