Building a democratic enterprise

In the wake of public distrust regarding biotechnology, it has been suggested that the debate should be moved 'upstream', whereby the public help to set research priorities. Although many scientists see this as an illogical reaction to a loss of faith in science, we argue that the boundari...

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Published in:Trends in biotechnology (Regular ed.) 2006-02, Vol.24 (2), p.57
Main Authors: Davies, Keith G, Wolf-Phillips, Jonathan
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