Donald Bruce

The publication highlighted here is mainly concerned with the possible ethical and social implications of nanobiotechnology. The discussion of these aspects of nanobiotechnology has only just begun. However, almost all people concerned agree that nanobiotechnology will raise ethical and social questions when applied to areas like medicine or environment, for example.

For the informed public it will therefore be of great importance to gain an unbiased overview of these questions, which is provided by this paper.

The author is Donald Bruce: He is a member of the Nano2Life Ethical, Legal and Social Advisory Board and is the Director of the Society, Religion and Technology Project of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Source: Ethical and social issues in nanobiotechnologies, Nano2Life provides a European ethical ‘think tank' for research in biology at the nanoscale, Donald Bruce, EMBO report, VOL 7 | NO 8 | 2006, pp. 754-758