Laura Spinney

Category: Genetics

  • Who owns life?

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    NEXT week, delegates will gather in Rome to discuss a question that could have profound implications for global biodiversity, food security and public health. Stripped of technical language, it boils down to this: who owns life? … This article was first published in New Scientist on 6 November 2019. To continue reading, click here (paywall).    

  • Right to know v. right not to know

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    IN THIS information-saturated age, what happens when the right to know comes up against the right not to know? The ease of genetic testing has brought this question to the fore. Genes, some of which contain disease-causing mutations, are shared within families, meaning the results of a test for a genetic condition inevitably affect more…