Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture a range of perspectives on the opportunities and risks presented by biological engineering. We first identified 70 potential issues, and then used an iterative process to prioritise 20 issues that we considered to be emerging, to have potential global impact, and to be relatively unknown outside the field of biological engineering. The issues identified may be of interest to researchers, businesses and policy makers in sectors such as health, energy, agriculture and the environment.

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跨大西洋视角看待生物工程中的 20 个新兴问题

生物工程的进步可能会对全球社会产生重大影响。为了探索这些潜在影响，我们进行了一次水平扫描练习，以捕获有关生物工程带来的机遇和风险的一系列观点。我们首先确定了 70 个潜在问题，然后使用迭代过程优先考虑了 20 个我们认为正在出现、具有潜在全球影响以及在生物工程领域之外相对未知的问题。所确定的问题可能会引起健康、能源、农业和环境等领域的研究人员、企业和政策制定者的兴趣。