Publications

An ethical framework and recommendations to guide policy making for current and future biofuels.

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.

Ethical dilemmas arise everyday in relation to the care of people living with dementia. This report concludes that we need to do more as a society to enable people to live well with dementia.

This report makes recommendations about what the Government, industry and individuals should do to enable people to lead a healthy life.

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 report discusses the ethical, legal and social issues raised and proposes guidelines on giving intensive care to babies born before 26 weeks.

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 seeks to clarify the debate on research involving animals and aims to help people think through the ethical issues that are raised.

This discussion paper is a follow-up to our 1999 report on GM crops. It reviews the scientific evidence, socio-economic trends, and developments in policy, trade and regulation.

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.