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Making sense of ‘genetic programs’: biomolecular Post–Newell production systems
The biomedical literature makes extensive use of the concept of a genetic program. So far, however, the nature of genetic programs has received no...
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Ontology (3): The Case for Programs: Altruistic Suicide, Quasi-Programs and Smurfs
This chapter considers two theories that emphasize death programs, or the program-like character of aging, namely the notion of quasi-programs and...
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Data Management in Multi-disciplinary African RTB Crop Breeding Programs
Quality phenotype and genotype data are important for the success of a breeding program. Like most programs, African breeding programs generate large...
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Ontology (2) Death Programs and Their Discontents
This chapter raises the issue of the existence of programs of aging and death. It explains why this question is important, its relations to...
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Genetic Information in Medicine: Its Generation, Significance, and Use
“Genetic information” may refer to information about a person’s family history, raw DNA sequence data, or an interpretation derived from the raw...
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The Debate on Biotechnology and Genetic Therapy
This chapter discusses some of the ethical dilemmas around genetic engineering. First, it provides a brief review of the historical and scientific...
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Who’s afraid of genetic tests?: An assessment of Singapore’s public attitudes and changes in attitudes after taking a genetic test
BackgroundAs a consequence of precision medicine initiatives, genomic technologies have rapidly spread around the world, raising questions about...
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The representation, quantification, and nature of genetic information
Current genetics studies often refer to notions from information science. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and structure the different...
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Eugenics or Not, Prenatal Genetic Testing’s Common Issues Need to Be Addressed
Critiques of prenatal genetic testing as eugenic have been debated for decades, but this strident debate can obscure ways in which persistent eugenic...
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Genebanking plant genetic resources in the postgenomic era
Genebanking, the process of preserving genetic resources, is a central practice in the modern management of crop genetics, especially for the species...
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The epistemic harms of direct-to-consumer genetic tests
In this paper, I provide an epistemic evaluation of the harms that result from the widespread marketing of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests....
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The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information
The question of whether “genetic information” is a merely causal factor in development or can be made sense of semantically, in a way analogous to a...
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Digital Sequence Information and Plant Genetic Resources: Global Policy Meets Interoperability
Plant genetic resources are source genetic material for conducting research and breeding. The use of this material is subject to international and...
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Genetic Determinism
Genetic determinism is a doctrine that states that all features of living organisms are dictated not only by their genetic constitution including...
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The genetic technologies questionnaire: lay judgments about genetic technologies align with ethical theory, are coherent, and predict behaviour
BackgroundPolicy regulations of ethically controversial genetic technologies should, on the one hand, be based on ethical principles. On the other...
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The Unfolding of Life: The Genetic Endowment
This Chapter describes in the first-person language the experience of an example of analogical, emergent interspecies communication; it then...
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Genetic Engineering
In this chapter I will apply the PP to ethical and policy issues related to genetic engineering of microbes, plants, animals, and human beings. I...
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The afterlife of fictional media violence. A genetic phenomenology of emotions following Husserl and Freud
Ever since the 1960s, media and communication studies have abounded in heated debates concerning the psychological and social effects of fictional...
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Creating a Digital Marketplace for Agrobiodiversity and Plant Genetic Sequence Data: Legal and Ethical Considerations of an AI and Blockchain Based Solution
The EU regulation on ‘Organic Production and Labelling of Organic Products’ opens the door for the creation of an EU-wide marketplace for...
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Feeding back of individual genetic results in Botswana: map** opportunities and challenges
PurposeWe explored the views of Botswana stakeholders involved in develo**, implementing and applying ethical standards for return of individual...