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The legal body coordinating the project is the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (Denmark). The individual Danish participants work at three institutions: The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, and the University of Copenhagen. The three institutions cooperate, on research on ethical issues raised by new biological knowledge and its use, according to a formal agreement. This agreement takes the form of a cooperation platform called the Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment (CeBRA).
The Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment (CeBRA) performs interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, development work, and communication at the crossroads of the humanities, the social sciences and the natural and applied sciences. CeBRA’s main field of interest is the ethical issues raised by new biological knowledge and its use in society. To date, CeBRA has concentrated on new knowledge about organisms used in agriculture and food production. However, increasingly, the study of human biology and the study of the biology of other organisms are merging, and as a result CeBRA’s interests now will broaden. Cloning is an example of a case in which scientific knowledge and techniques developed on animals could be used either on humans directly or on animals for human health purposes. In cloning, therefore, the boundary between human biological science and biological studies of other organisms breaks down. |
CeBRA—the royal veterinary and agricultural univeristy, the danish institute of agricultural sciences and university of copenhagen |
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CONTACT CEBRA |
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Danish Centre for bioethics and risk assessment CeBRA |
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CLONING IN PUBLIC
A specific support action within the 6th framework programme, priority 5: Food quality and safety |
Institute for molecular and cell biology (IBMC) |
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The IBMC was conceived as a multidisciplinary research institution covering five broad domains: genetic diseases, infectious diseases and immunology, neuroscience, stress and structural biology. With more than twenty research groups, and well over one hundred graduate students, it fosters the kind of basic research that often has applications in biomedicine and biotechnology. Given the social implications and public interest of many of the research topics, both students and researchers have become involved in community activities. Within the European Community, several senior IBMC staff have participated in networks, providing advice and leadership in the design of new programmes and policies. At the international level, IBMC researchers have secured research funds in highly competitive fields, and have developed a growing number of successful collaborations. The Institute itself is a member of the UNESCO Molecular and Cell Biology Network. The ethics of research and biotechnology is a central interest of the IBMC, which is a partner of the European BioTEthics project. |
Institute of animal physiology and genetics (IAPG) |
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The Institute (named in 1993) pursues and develops biomedical basic research in the field of animal physiology and genetics. The main research directions include the study of the physiology of reproduction and embryonic development during the prenatal period of ontogenesis, the physiology of nutrition and research of genetic parameters of selected model species. In the physiology of reproduction, research deals with: meiotic maturation of mammalian oocytes, their fertilisation and activation, including biochemical characterisation of these processes, the study of cell differentiation during early embryonic and foetal development of mammals, and the origin of neural progenitors and other specialised cell populations of the nervous system. Another important part of the Institute’s research is the study of activation of the embryonic genome. In the physiology of nutrition, research is aimed at microbial communities of the mammalian digestive system, and at the study of hormonal control of mammalian organism. The genetic research includes the study and mapping of selected genes, including the clarification of laws governing the organisation and expression of the genome, not only in selected mammalian species, but also in lower vertebrates. In addition, research focuses upon the genetic population and phylogeographic structure of selected fish species, including mechanisms and processes of unisexual fish systems. |
Cardiff law school |
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Cardiff Law School is a large, well-resourced centre of excellence which plays a full role in serving the University of Wales in its mission as one of the UK's leading research institutions. Placed in the top ten UK law schools in the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise, the School conducts research meeting criteria of national excellence in virtually all areas and criteria of international excellence in some areas. The School’s international reputation is fostered by: visits by numerous distinguished academics from all over the world, the attraction of major international conferences to Cardiff, sponsorship of an annual Journal of Law and Society Lecture encouragements to staff to develop international contacts through conference attendance and research leave . |