Publications

New developments in medical profiling and online medicine can enable people to take more responsibility for their health and give them increased choice. Our report explores the extent to which developments really are leading to healthcare becoming more personalised.

This report uses the principle of proportionality as a basis for recommendations in a number of areas including the use of the National DNA Database.

This supplement to our 1993 report on genetic screening summarises scientific, technological and policy-related developments that have taken place over the past 13 years in the UK.

This report considers the implications of pharmacogenetics for research and development of medicines, clinical practice and treatment, and the use and storage of genetic information.

Research is exploring how genes and the environment influence behavioural traits. This report addresses concerns over how this information could be used to try to predict, change or select such traits.

Discussing whether the DNA patent system is achieving its aims of stimulating innovation for the public good, and rewarding people for useful new inventions.

This report considers the ethical concerns raised by research into the genetics of mental disorders.

Genetic screening for heritable diseases raises important ethical, legal and practical issues for the individual involved, their families and society generally.