06 December 2010 - ‘Delivering Global Promise Through the Life Sciences’ Conference Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 December 2010 OECD Headquarters, Paris France

Advances in the life sciences are increasingly shaping our lives and the futures that we anticipate. But are we ready for a future where we can engineer biology to create novel living organisms and direct biological products to do jobs for us in smarter ways? Will personalised genomic medicine lead to inequities between those who can afford the new science and those who cannot? Should we look to the life sciences for environmentally friendly energy sources and new materials?

16 November 2010 - Study finds evidence of gender bias towards diagnosing boys with autism

Social factors can play a key role in whether or not a child is diagnosed as autistic, a new study has found.

09 November 2010 - Psychiatry Ethics Film Festival - Do your parents make you mentally ill?

Do modern genetics at last allow us to understand where psychiatric disorders spring from? Will there soon be new forms of remedy? Is it ethical to propose forms of pre-natal screening for mental health problems? And how do clinicians handle the issue of consent with patients suffering from profound psychiatric problems. These are some of the issues that will be discussed at the Psychiatry Ethics Film Festival, held at Edinburgh Filmhouse from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 November 2010.

04 October 2010 - Call for long-term view on ‘dire’ funding of biological research databases

A rethink is needed on the 'dire' situation of funding of databases across biology, researchers say.

28 August 2010 - Professor Brian Wynne Associate Director of Cesagen, Lancaster University awarded prestigious Bernal Prize.

Professor Brian Wynne, Associate Director of Cesagen, Lancaster University, has been awarded the prestigious J D Bernal Prize for his distinguished contribution to the social studies of science.

03 March 2010 - Art and science in public dialogue at Plymouth Arts Centre

Prominent scientists and artists will come together on Wednesday 17 March for an unusual open public event at Plymouth Arts Centre.

03 March 2010 - Prenatal genetic testing – a moral maze?

Public invited to question experts at discussion event

01 March 2010 - Honour for ESRC Genomics Forum Director

Professor Steve Yearley, Director of the ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum at the University of Edinburgh has been named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), today (Monday 1 March 2010).

19 February 2010 - £2.5 million funding package for Edinburgh based social science communications centre

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded a further £2.58 million to the ESRC Genomics Forum, based at the University of Edinburgh. The Forum pioneers new ways to promote social research on contemporary life science issues from GM food to personalised genetic medicine.