http://www.bris.ac.uk/ethicsinmedicine/
The Centre for Ethics is located in the medical school of Bristol University and was opened by Lord Limerick in 1998.
Top of the news list is Ainsley Newson, part of a consortium that has been allocated £1.8million over 5 years to study non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD). Dr Newson will work with Dr Zuzana Deans at CEM to lead on the ethical research within the RAPID project.
There is a long list of research areas that cover the Centre’s main areas of interest and expertise including children & young people, enhancing human capacities, end of life decision making, justice and health care and evidence based medicine.
What I learned that was special:
• Synthetic biology is the engineering of biology: the synthesis of complex, biologically based, or inspired, systems which display functions that do not exist in nature. Possible applications of synthetic biology could include the creation of systems to generate power, new medical applications, nanoscale biological computers, new approaches to cleaning up dangerous waste or sensitive biosensors for health or security applications.
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