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Genomics Network

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Genomics Policy and Research Forum

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Media room - press releases

Media Room

Forum staff are a good source of information and comment on the social, ethical or legal issues connected with genomics related science and technologies - from genetic testing to DNA fingerprinting, from plant and animal breeding to the development of new drugs and therapies.

For further information, please contact:

Chris Berry, Press and Communications Officer Tel: 0131 651 4746, email: chris.berry@ed.ac.uk

For news and comment visit Fourm News Page

Latest Media Releases:

14 May 2013

Robot-inspired new musical work to be premiered

26 March 2013

“Could too little play-time harm children and society?” experts set to debate

11 March 2013

Event to examine how digital technology is resulting in the “evaporation” of real “things”

11 February 2013

Exhibits from Surgeons’ Hall Museum “brought to life” at public event

23 January 2013

Edinburgh young people to engage with nature conservation

9 November 2012

Expert Global Forum to consider the "Evolving Promise of the Life Sciences"

8 November 2012

Neuro-Ethics Film Festival 2012 to examine ethical implications of how our brains govern our behaviour

5 November 2012

Festival event asks: "Could a biotech revolution transform Scotland and ignite interest in the life sciences?"

5 October 2012

Global pandemics, science in literature, and the importance of biotechnology to Scotland, all up for consideration in the Genomics Forum autumn events programme

13 September 2012

Experts meet to discuss improving intelligence relating to emerging bio-weapon threats

5 September 2012
Debate around human cloning set to be reignited with the performance of A Number

15 August 2012
Scientists in fiction – creative or crazed geniuses? Edinburgh International Book Festival to consider

6 August 2012
“Will DIY-bio potentially benefit or threaten society?” Edinburgh International Book Festival to debate

21 June 2012
Bio-hackers, mad scientists and society’s influence on our genetics to be debated at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2012

11 May 2012
Saving Sebastian – ‘saviour sibling’ fiction prompts ethical debate

9 May 2012
Could reading Harry Potter help scientists cure the common cold?

29 February 2012
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod Book Launch 21 March 2012

28 February 2012
True Cost of DNA Testing

22 February 2012
Translating the Genome into a Play

1 December 2011
`Knowledge brokers’ make social science count