Biotechnology, he argues, falls somewhere in the middle: potentially catastrophic, but with the potential to drastically improve human life.

To the Editor: Francis Fukuyama contends that we require “a regulatory framework to separate the legitimate and illegitimate uses” of biotechnology so that we may sustain liberal democracy as ...

Human biotechnology raises ethical issues that don't exist in the realm of food. But if you look at the politics of it, you have an extremely powerful scientific research community and a biotech ...

Comment Visions, an international on-line debate forum, asked my view on the following question: Biotechnology has been hailed as the wonder industry of the 21st Century, but are we capable of cont… ...

Human Genome Sciences Inc., the Rockville biotechnology firm, will announce today that it will start a small clinical trial within the next few weeks on a treatment it has developed to speed up ...

Biotechnology: Engineered Moss Can Produce Human Proteins Date: May 11, 2009 Source: ETH Zurich Summary: Researchers have shown that mosses and humans share unexpected common characteristics ...

A somewhat tongue-in-cheek article in The Guardian is proposing some rather interesting predictions for the future of humanity — changes to human form and function that would even make some of ...

All plant biotechnology grant applications must now include a paragraph explaining the extent to which plant dignity is considered. “But scientists don’t know what it means,” says Beat ...

European Science Foundation. "Not Just Humans Benefit From Animal Biotechnology." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 October 2007. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 10 / 071024115230.htm>.

Biotechnology in Sport and Health Transcript In a special discussion recorded as part of National Science Week, we hear from a panel of experts on the role of Biotechnology in sport and health.