Synthetic biology is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field that aligns engineering principles with biological equipment for adapting life. This article describes an incremental rhetorical experiment to insert human-focused (ethical) equipment into a technical project that adapted a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat/Cas9 gene-editing system. This ethical equipment was inserted via a contemporaneous study of the public instantiation of synthetic biology. The findings from this experiment show that by enacting multiple representations, accounts of synthetic biology have elicited similar discourse forms and actions as prior emergent technologies. But the discourses associated with synthetic biology have not (yet) coalesced into stabilized forms, suggesting that synthetic biology has yet to be instantiated as formal practice, so its meanings remain alterable. This article concludes by documenting an attempt to influence this emerging interdisciplinary field with an integrated ethical narrative.

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科学出现和实例化第二部分：组装合成生物学 2006-2015

合成生物学是一个新兴的跨学科领域，它将工程原理与生物设备相结合以适应生活。本文描述了一项增量修辞实验，将以人为中心的（伦理）设备插入到一个技术项目中，该项目采用了成簇的规则间隔短回文重复序列/Cas9 基因编辑系统。这种道德设备是通过对合成生物学公开实例的同期研究插入的。该实验的结果表明，通过制定多种表征，合成生物学的描述引发了与先前新兴技术类似的话语形式和行动。但是与合成生物学相关的话语（尚未）合并为稳定的形式，这表明合成生物学尚未被实例化为正式实践，所以它的含义仍然是可变的。本文最后记录了以综合伦理叙事影响这一新兴跨学科领域的尝试。