Journal article
Bioengineering horizon scan 2020
L Kemp, L Adam, CR Boehm, R Breitling, R Casagrande, M Dando, A Djikeng, NG Evans, R Hammond, K Hills, LA Holt, T Kuiken, A Markotić, P Millett, JA Napier, C Nelson, SS Óhéigeartaigh, A Osbourn, M Palmer, NJ Patron Show all
Elife | ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2020
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.54489
Abstract
Horizon scanning is intended to identify the opportunities and threats associated with technological, regulatory and social change. In 2017 some of the present authors conducted a horizon scan for bioengineering (Wintle et al., 2017). Here we report the results of a new horizon scan that is based on inputs from a larger and more international group of 38 participants. The final list of 20 issues includes topics spanning from the political (the regulation of genomic data, increased philanthropic funding and malicious uses of neurochemicals) to the environmental (crops for changing climates and agricultural gene drives). The early identification of such issues is relevant to researchers, polic..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Templeton World Charity Foundation TWCF0128 Luke Kemp Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M017702/1 Rainer Breitling Philip Shapira Eriko Takano Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/S01778X/1 Philip Shapira Rainer Breitling Eriko Takano European Research Council ERC 616510 Deborah Scott Robert D.J. Smith Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R021554/1 Nicola J Patron Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/P010490/1 Nicola J Patron Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S020853/1 Nicola J Patron Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S020853/1 Nicola J Patron The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.