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  1. Within the space of a few years, the idea of Responsible Research and Innovation, and its acronym RRI, catapulted from an obscure phrase to the topic of conferences and attempts to specify and realize it. How ...

    Authors: Arie Rip
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:17
  2. The right to withdraw from research, along with the necessity of adequately informed consent, is at the heart of the post-Nuremburg code of ethical safeguards in biomedical research on human participants. As b...

    Authors: Karen Melham, Linda Briceno Moraia, Colin Mitchell, Michael Morrison, Harriet Teare and Jane Kaye
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:16
  3. England and Wales are moving toward a model of ‘opt out’ for use of personal confidential data in health research. Existing research does not make clear how acceptable this move is to the public. While people ...

    Authors: Mark J Taylor and Natasha Taylor
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:15
  4. Focused on the impact of stringent intellectual property mechanisms over the uses of plant agricultural biodiversity in crop improvement, the article delves into a systematic analysis of the relationship betwe...

    Authors: Fulya Batur and Tom Dedeurwaerdere
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:14
  5. In modern societies, rhetoric focused on body and health is common as biomedical sciences have taken a big place in people’s lives. They must enhance the society, health and living conditions of citizens. Solv...

    Authors: Laurence Perbal
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:13
  6. Two decades ago, in 1994, in the context of the 4th EU Framework Programme, ELSA was introduced as a label for developing and funding research into the ethical, legal and social aspects of emerging sciences and t...

    Authors: Hub Zwart, Laurens Landeweerd and Arjan van Rooij
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:11
  7. Taking people’s longevity as a measure of good life, humankind can proudly say that the average person is living a much longer life than ever before. The AIDS epidemic has however for the first time in decades...

    Authors: Cristian Timmermann
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:8
  8. As evidenced by high-throughput sequencers, genomic technologies have recently undergone radical advances. These technologies enable comprehensive sequencing of personal genomes considerably more efficiently a...

    Authors: Jusaku Minari, Tetsuya Shirai and Kazuto Kato
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:4
  9. The rare case of the patient unwilling to disclose genetic data to his or her family provides an opportunity to expand the atomistic conception of the autonomous individual in medical decision-making. Medical ...

    Authors: Michael Gallagher
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:7
  10. Recent events and advances address the possibility of cloning endangered and extinct species. The ethics of these types of cloning have special considerations, uniquely different from the types of cloning comm...

    Authors: Sariah Cottrell, Jamie L Jensen and Steven L Peck
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:3
  11. The introduction of open source in the life sciences is increasingly being suggested as an alternative to patenting. This is an alternative, however, that takes its shape at the intersection of the life scienc...

    Authors: Eric Deibel
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:2
  12. This article discusses outcomes of a dialogue conference on ‘The road ahead for ELSA in Norway: Issues of quality, influence and network cooperation’ held in Oslo in December 2012. Norwegian researchers in the...

    Authors: Ellen-Marie Forsberg
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2014 10:1
  13. Trying to separate out nature and nurture as explanations for behaviour, as in classic genetic studies of twins and families, is now said to be both impossible and unproductive. In practice the nature-nurture ...

    Authors: Mairi Levitt
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2013 9:13
  14. Human/animal relations are potentially controversial and biotechnologically produced animals and animal-like creatures – bio-objects such as transgenics, clones, cybrids and other hybrids – have often created ...

    Authors: Lonneke Poort, Tora Holmberg and Malin Ideland
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2013 9:11
  15. Synthetic biology (SB) has emerged as one of the newest and promising areas of bio-technology. Issues typically associated to SB, notably in the media, like the idea of artificial life creation and “real” engi...

    Authors: Angela Meyer, Amelie Cserer and Markus Schmidt
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2013 9:9
  16. In the life sciences, where large data sets are increasingly setting the stage for research, the role of bioinformatics is expanding. This has far-reaching consequences, not only for the way research is done, ...

    Authors: Jan van Baren-Nawrocka
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2013 9:7
  17. There is a growing consensus that results generated through multiplex genetic tests, even those produced as a part of research, should be reported to providers and patients when they are considered “actionable...

    Authors: Tinsley HG Webster, Sarah J Beal and Kyle B Brothers
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2013 9:8
  18. The empirical literature on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of biobanking has almost entirely relied on the perspectives of those outside of biobanks, such as the general public, researchers...

    Authors: R Jean Cadigan, Dragana Lassiter, Kaaren Haldeman, Ian Conlon, Erik Reavely and Gail E Henderson
    Citation: Life Sciences, Society and Policy 2013 9:1
  19. This is an exploratory paper of the ethical implications for genomic research and mental illness with specific reference to Singapore. Singapore has a unique context due to its social and political systems, an...

    Authors: Ayesha Ahmad, Tamra Lysaght, Liu Jianjun, Mythily Subramaniam, Tan Say Beng and Benjamin Capps
    Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2012 8:15