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Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Nuffied Council on Pharmacogenetics Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Introduction: "Pharmacogenetics, the study of the extent to which genetic differences influence the response of individuals to medicines, is still at an early stage in its development. Claims of personalised prescriptions may be unrealistic, but it is not too early to consider possible applications of this new area of study as well as ethical and legal issues which may arise."

Today's Guardian also cites a Nuffield Council discussion of developing countries and GMOs, and sets against this an IDS evaluation showing poor resturns to farmers in three field trials; will try to get more on this uip soon. Nuffield Council is an excellent organisation, whose report on gene IPR a year or so ago was very well-informed.

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