Gary E. Marchant, Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation and Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, recently contributed to the discussion With Great Scientific Power Comes Great Responsibility, published by Zócalo Public Square and TIME online. In his segment, entitled Developing Governance as Innovative as our Science and Technology, Marchant discusses the benefits and disadvantages related to opportunities provided by synthetic biology — and highlights the present lack of appropriate and functional governance systems to guide and govern this flourishing area.