More Medical Patent Problems
The US Supreme Court recently ruled that that a personalized medicine dosing process is not eligible for patent protection because the process is effectively an unpatentable law of nature. This ruling could have wide reaching implications. - Leggi
Read also: Vinod Kumar Gupta in Innovating Food, Innovating the Law
Categorie Biotechnology
Teaching science in schools, some ideas
Science learning in the classroom presents the opportunity for teachers to introduce the problems of ethics and responsibility at an early age. In this post we look at 3 UK based projects that all aim to develop science teaching and involve the students in innovative ways - Leggi 
Genetic test inaccuracy: a new report
On 31 May Rachel Kalf presented a paper at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics in which she argued that home genetic tests are neither acurate nor beneficial to the individual. - Leggi 
Categorie Report
Genetica "fai da te" dai microfoni di formicablu
formicablu ha intercettato l'incontro con Margaret Curnutte svoltosi il 16 maggio 2011 presso la sede della Fondazione Bassetti, intervistando Francesca Petrera e la stessa Curnutte per il programma PiGreco Party in onda ogni settimana in diretta su Radio Città del Capo di Bologna. - Leggi 
Leggi anche: Consuming Genomes. Materiali
Consuming Genomes. Materiali - aggiornamento
Rinnovando la segnalazione e l'invito ad iscriversi all'incontro con Margaret Curnutte il 16 maggio 2011, presso la sede della Fondazione Bassetti, proponiamo qualche materiale introduttivo: un abstract della sua ricerca, la scaletta del talk che terrà lunedì e una panoramica degli articoli sull'argomento pubblicati recentemente nel nostro sito e in via di pubblicazione. - Leggi 
Home genetic testing and the law
As a lead up to the presentation entitled that will be delivered by Margaret Curnutte here at the Bassetti Foundation in Milan on 16th May I would like to take a brief look at the way in which the legal community and governmental regulatory organizations view the problem of home genetic testing. - Leggi 
Read also: Genetic Consumerism
Consuming Genomes. Materiali
Rinnovando la segnalazione e l'invito ad iscriversi all'incontro con Margaret Curnutte il 16 maggio 2011, presso la sede della Fondazione Bassetti, proponiamo una panoramica degli articoli sull'argomento pubblicati recentemente nel nostro sito e in via di pubblicazione. - Leggi 
Genetic Consumerism
On 16th May 2011 Margaret Curnutte, PhD Candidate at the University of Milan, European School for Molecular Medicine and Bassetti Fellow at the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Harvard University will present a paper at the Bassetti Foundation in Milan outlining her work. - Leggi 
Categorie Seminari
The Genes and Patent issue
Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature... - Leggi 
Leggi anche: Marcia indietro sulla brevettabilità dei geni di Margherita Fronte
Categorie Biotechnology, Publications
Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (2)
- Leggi 
Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (1)
This is a first attempt at focussing on issues and questions of timescapes, responsibility and creativity with regard to the issue of the production and consumption of food in contemporary Italy. - Leggi 
Categorie anthropology, precautionary principle
