Ethics and law in biological research

This volume asserts that scientific research on biotechnologies has become the protagonist of discoveries that exert a great impact on public opinion. Every day popular opinion is challenged by the media, so that it becomes not only a witness of these developments, but is also, to a certain extent, forced to become a judge of those cases where human and animal genetics have been investigated. The man-in-the-street is thus confronted by moral positions ranging from cautious approval, to wait-and-