I diritti umani alla sfida della biologia sintetica tra Unione Europea e Consiglio d’Europa: il caso delle applicazioni sull’essere umano (Human Rights towards the Challenge of Synthetic Biology between the European Union and the Council of Europe: The Case of Applications on Human Being)

The paper analyses the possible impact of synthetic biology applications on human being with regard to health, human dignity and self-determination principle. Thanks to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and of the Court of Justice of the European Union, it means to frame the current regulatory framework of those rights entailed by applications aimed at enhancing human performances. The paper upholds that since strengths and shortcomings are mutually distributed between the two systems of the Council of Europe and of European Union, a better coordination is requested in order to develop a style of governance rights-oriented