When it comes to the regulation of agricultural biotechnology there are multiple variables to be considered and assumptions to be challenged. Is regulation just an economic burden or are the requirements and restrictions it imposes necessary for a safe and civilised society. The articles here explore these and other themes.
Published: 05-08-2024
In its 2019 report on Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the UK government describes a future characterised by a fusion of technologies and a blurring of the lines between the physical, digital and biological worlds. Prof Brigitte Nerlich, offers her thoughts on responsibility in a bio-hybrid world where fact meets fiction.
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Published: 17-06-2024
Who do the ‘techno-optimists’ and gene-editing boosters speak for? As Prof David Christian Rose argued at a recent conference it isn’t necessarily farmers or citizens.
Published: 14-11-2023
At its core, powerful institutions have exploited public confidence and trust that science is produced in a neutral and impartial manner. But when private industry information is not subject to robust debate and challenge, it’s propaganda. Call it what it is and we might be able to start changing things.
