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Misdirected precaution

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  • Barbara Prainsack

    (Barbara Prainsack is at the Centre for Biomedicine & Society, London WC2R 2LS, UK. barbara.prainsack@kcl.ac.uk)

  • Jenny Reardon

    (University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.)

  • Richard Hindmarsh

    (Richard Hindmarsh is at the Griffith School of Environment, and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, 4111 Queensland, Australia.)

  • Herbert Gottweis

    (Herbert Gottweis and Ursula Naue are at the Life Science Governance Research Platform, University of Vienna, Vienna A-1010, Austria.)

  • Ursula Naue

    (Herbert Gottweis and Ursula Naue are at the Life Science Governance Research Platform, University of Vienna, Vienna A-1010, Austria.)

  • Jeantine E. Lunshof

    (Maastricht University, 6211 LK Maastricht, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.)

Abstract

Personal-genome tests are blurring the boundary between experts and lay people. Barbara Prainsack, Jenny Reardon and a team of international collaborators urge regulators to rethink outdated models of regulation.

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  • Barbara Prainsack & Jenny Reardon & Richard Hindmarsh & Herbert Gottweis & Ursula Naue & Jeantine E. Lunshof, 2008. "Misdirected precaution," Nature, Nature, vol. 456(7218), pages 34-35, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:456:y:2008:i:7218:d:10.1038_456034a
    DOI: 10.1038/456034a
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