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Bioengineering horizon scan 2020.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Abstract

Horizon scanning is intended to identify the opportunities and threats associated with technological, regulatory and social change. In 2017 some of the present authors conducted a horizon scan for bioengineering (Wintle et al., 2017). Here we report the results of a new horizon scan that is based on inputs from a larger and more international group of 38 participants. The final list of 20 issues includes topics spanning from the political (the regulation of genomic data, increased philanthropic funding and malicious uses of neurochemicals) to the environmental (crops for changing climates and agricultural gene drives). The early identification of such issues is relevant to researchers, policy-makers and the wider public.

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Keywords

bioengineering, biotechnology, foresight, genetics, genomics, horizon scanning, human biology, medicine, none, point of view, Agriculture, Bioengineering, Biotechnology, Climate Change, Female, Forecasting, Genetic Engineering, Humans, Internationality, Male, Plants, Genetically Modified, Politics

Journal Title

Elife

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Journal ISSN

2050-084X
2050-084X

Volume Title

9

Publisher

eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
Sponsorship
Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) (177155)
February Foundation (unknown)
Milner Foundation (Unknown)