title: Paradigm shifts versus fashion shifts? Systems and synthetic biology as new epistemic entities in understanding and making 'life'.
authors.affiliation: Interdepartmental Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), Tübingen University, Germany. potthast@uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Potthast
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008954:Models, Biological; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*