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Innovation and GM: managing risk and supporting UK Life Sciences
This week the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, released his first annual report: Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It, looking at approaches to risk and uncertainty in the context of innovation. This week the Government...
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Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age
Jonathan Kahn Columbia University Press, £24.00 Jonathan Kahn Columbia University Press, £24.00 Lawyer Jonathan Kahn is a smart guy: he seems as much at home discussing epidemiology and drug marketing as he does the history of US race relations and the...
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STEM Careers Resources Database
The National STEM Centre has created a STEM careers resources database, which brings together several existing catalogues of STEM careers materials. This database provides STEM careers information for students, their parents, teachers, and careers...
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Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law: Fighting for Social Justice
Felicity Callard et al Wiley-Blackwell, £69.99 Felicity Callard et al Wiley-Blackwell, £69.99 Mental illness continues to be highly stigmatised. Law can, if properly and appropriately applied and enforced, help to reduce stigma and improve the lives of...
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The Biologist launches new website
Our new Biologist website is packed full of features on topical issues in science and biology research, as well as interviews with prominent biologists and our members. The Biologist's official website is now live, providing a new way for members and...
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Archive 2008-15
The policy team develops responses to consultations on behalf of the Society, on topics including access to academic research, guidance on animal research, plant science and the funding and commercialisation of research. We maintain an archive of...
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2010
The Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees 10 December 2010 A response to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on their consultation on the Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees. BBC Trust review of Science...
