Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture and faith from the Antipodes.

Bioethics/Biotech

Who owns your genes?

Brief summary article ScienceDaily: Who Should ‘Own’ Genetic Information? points to the British Medical Journal news release Should families own genetic information? Yes — Lucassen 335 (7609): 22 — BMJ.

That article in turn points to two journal articles that argue for different sides of that discussion – one in favour of families and the other in favour of the individual. You can find them at:

If I can find a decent polling plug-in or widget for the blog I might turn this into a poll.