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Biotechnology at the bar

机译:生物技术在酒吧

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This October, Franklin Zweig will face one of the most difficult cases in his career as a judge. A radioactive, mercury-laden waste sludge has been deposited on both banks of a river that forms the border between two countries. The heavy metal is seeping into nearby water sources, which supply hundreds of thousands of people. One country wants to apply a genetically modified, radiation-resistant bacterium that can immobilize the mercury. But on the other bank, activists who fear the transgenic bacterium more than radioactivity and heavy-metal poisoning have asked a court to block the project. "How can a judge obtain the scientific information that is necessary to resolve such a case?" asks Zweig. Luckily, this case is hypothetical―an imaginary scenario designed to test the International Science and Technology Reference Forum, an ambitious initiative developed in response to the increasingly difficult relationship between the law and science, particularly fast-moving fields such as biotechnology. "Dis-cussions between scientists and legal experts have reached a common conclusion," says Zweig, a former legal adviser to the US Senate. "A new institution is necessary to mediate between science and the legal environment."
机译:今年10月,富兰克林·茨威格(Franklin Zweig)将面临法官职业中最困难的案件之一。放射性,含汞废物污泥已沉积在形成两国边界的一条河流的两岸。重金属渗入附近的水源,为数十万人提供水。一个国家希望应用一种可以固定汞的转基因抗辐射细菌。但是在另一家银行,活动家们对转基因细菌的担心超过了放射性和重金属中毒,他们要求法院阻止该项目。 “法官如何获得解决此类案件所必需的科学信息?”问茨威格。幸运的是,这种情况是假设性的—一种假想的场景,旨在测试国际科学技术参考论坛,这是一项雄心勃勃的倡议,旨在应对法律与科学之间日益困难的关系,特别是生物技术等快速发展的领域。美国参议院前法律顾问茨威格说:“科学家与法律专家之间的讨论已达成共识。” “有必要建立一个新机构来在科学与法律环境之间进行调解。”

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    《Nature》 |2003年第6954期|p.116-117|共2页
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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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