Governance, regulation and public interest is one of four EGN research programmes designed to present scientifically informed and policy-relevant research to key UK and international audiences. This theme focuses on the novel regulatory and governance issues associated with developments in contemporary life science. For example, today’s research means that people can find out more about their ancestry and identity through genetic tests, many of which can be purchased over the Internet. People may even be able to find out information about their partners, children, friends or business associates in similar ways. How should such novel opportunities – and the myriad others associated with life-science research – be managed, legally regulated and overseen?

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Genomics Forum research projects related to this programme include:

The Genome in Government – led by the Genomics Forum, this research exercise aims to chart both how genomes are governed (which UK Departments are responsible for which aspects of the human, animal and plant genomes, and so on) and the extent of the challenge to conventional governance which is provoked by the ubiquity of genomes. Biological information does not neatly follow conventional ministerial boundaries, so how are Departments responding to biological insights that cross political and civil-service divides.

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Genomics and Biosecurity
Jonathan Suk

Genomics and Intellectual Property
Nadja Kanellopoulou

Philosophy, Law and Social Sciences in Genomics Policy Making
Almut Caspary

03 December 2007 - Second EGN meeting held in Xishuangbanna, China

Under the Microscope: Stem Cells
Nadja Kanellopolou