"A Life of Its Own: Where will synthetic biology lead us?"
Michael Specter, The New Yorker, September 28, 2009.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/28/090928fa_fact_specter

"Hacking goes squishy"
The Economist, Sep 3rd 2009.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14299634

"The New Biofactories"
Robert Carlson, in What Matters, McKinsey Publishing, McKinsey and Company, 2009.
http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/biotechnology/the-new-biofactories

"Tracking the spread of biological technologies"
Robert Carlson, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 21 November 2008.
http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/tracking-the-spread-of-biological-technologies

"The Big Squeeze: New Fundamentals for Food and Fuel Markets"
Stephen C. Aldrich, James Newcomb, Robert Carlson, Bio Economic Research Associates, June 2008.
http://www.bio-era.net/news/add_news_19.html

"Scenarios for the Future of Synthetic Biology"
Stephen Aldrich, James Newcomb, Robert Carlson. Industrial Biotechnology. March 2008, 4(1): 39-49.
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ind.2008.039

"Laying the foundations of a bio-economy"
Robert Carlson, Systems and Synthetic Biology,     August 2007, 1(3).
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n211746672413507/

"Genome Synthesis and Design Futures: Implications for the US Economy"
James Newcomb, Robert Carlson, Steven Aldrich, Bio Economic Research Associates, 2007.
http://bio-era.net/research/doe_execsum1.html

"Synthetic Biology 1.0"
Robert Carlson, Future Brief, 2005.
http://www.futurebrief.com/robertcarlsonbio001.asp

"The Pace and Proliferation of Biological Technologies"
Robert Carlson, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, September 2003, 1(3): 203-214.
http://www.synthesis.cc/writing/Carlson_Pace_and_Prolif.pdf