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Barbara Prainsack, Jenny Reardon, Richard Hindmarsh, Herbert Gottweis, Ursula Naue and Jeantine E. Lunshof
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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.

Nature, 2008, vol. 456, issue 7218, 34-35

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 Barbara Prainsack, Jenny Reardon and a team of international collaborators urge regulators to rethink outdated models of regulation.

Date: 2008
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