#biotechnology

Sugli ogm non si ascoltano i cittadini

Nelle scorse settimane, l’approvazione da parte della Commissione europea di una patata e di tre varietà di mais geneticamente modificate ha riacceso il dibattito sugli ogm, che aveva animato i giornali negli anni Novanta e che ha poi covato sotto la cenere per gran parte del decennio successivo. Come riporta l’Ansa, la patata Amflora, prodotta ... Sugli ogm non si ascoltano i cittadini

Margherita Fronte

Il buono e il cattivo delle cellule staminali

Un’inchiesta del settimanale Panorama e un articolo dell’Economist svelano i chiaroscuri della ricerca sulle cellule staminali, settore nel quale si attendono, nei prossimi anni, alcune fra le più significative innovazioni in campo medico. Le cellule staminali sono infatti ritenute da almeno una decina d’anni lo strumento principe della medicina rigenerativa, che si ripropone di sostituire ... Il buono e il cattivo delle cellule staminali

Margherita Fronte

Una breve recensione: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility

L’inizio di quest’anno ha visto la messa on line di una nuova pubblicazione della Fondazione Bassetti intitolata Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility e scritta da Jeff Ubois con la prefazione di Piero Bassetti. La Fondazione la rilascia disponibile in edizione cartacea, in pdf scaricabile e leggibile direttamente on-line tramite Issuu, protetta da licenza Creative ... Una breve recensione: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility

Jonathan Hankins

A short review: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility

Last week we put online a new publication of the Foundation Bassetti entitled “Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility”, written by Jeff Ubois and available in hard copy, downloadable pdf or Issuu (on line) versions. The publication is a resume’ of conversations conducted between Mr Ubois and 12 internationally renowned innovators and thinkers and features ... A short review: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility

Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility

Index of this page: – The booklet in Issuu – Introduction – Table Of Contents – Clip video – Cover See also a short review by Jonathan Hankins in Focus section.   The Fondazione Giannino Bassetti’s new publication, Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility highlights approaches to responsibility in innovation taken by leading practitioners in ... Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility

Redazione FGB

La colla della cozza e altre fiabe biotech

(Nuovo e Utile, Firenze 28-29 settembre 2004) Anch’io ho le mie idee sulla creatività nella scienza – sul perché c’è o non c’è, se dipende dal modo di guardare la natura "con la meraviglia stupita di un bambino", dalla serendipity, dalle mode e dall’anticonformismo che suscitano, da metafore e metonimie, effetti di linguaggio, associazioni mentali ... La colla della cozza e altre fiabe biotech

Sylvie Coyaud

Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 2)

(An interview with Dr. Thomas Murray – …continues from the previous entry) Ubois:Great, I really wanted to ask you about cognitive enhancement. A friend of mine just came from a global meeting of international engineers, and there were large delegation from two companies, and both delegations were talking about how many people in the company ... Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 2)

Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 1)

An Interview with Dr. Thomas Murray (Thomas Murray is President of The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute founded in 1969 and based in Garrison, NY.) One of the world’s leading institutions in bioethics, the Hastings Center takes an approach characterized by interdisciplinary inquiry, broad public engagement, scenario-based thinking, public service, and engagement with ... Deepening The Public Conversation Around Bioethics (part 1)

An Interview With Dr. Ignacio Chapela

Ignacio Chapela is an assistant professor at University of California Berkeley, who, with colleague David Quist, discovered that illegally grown, genetically modified corn contaminated traditional heirloom corn in Oaxaca, Mexico. That discovery touched off a major controversy, and illuminates many of the issues related to responsibility in innovation that most concern the Fondazione. Jeff Ubois: ... An Interview With Dr. Ignacio Chapela

Bio- & Nano-Technology: who should decide and who will pay?

The convergence of biology, computing and robotics is the kernel of the recent progresses that applications from biotechnology to nanotechnology have produced in relation to their perceived opportunities, risks and challenges. Undoubtedly, human progress depend on the introduction and diffusion of novel and paradigm-changing technologies, but these are not neutral and carry with themselves a ... Bio- & Nano-Technology: who should decide and who will pay?