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Michael J. Reiss, member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Professor of Science Education at UCL and a Priest in the Church of England, reflects on research that aims to develop the tools needed to synthesise a human genome.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) is collaborating with the University of Edinburgh and others to co-create future governance frameworks for synthetic biology in plants – a rapidly advancing area of engineering biology with the potential to transform agriculture, sustainability, and food security.

Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, reflects on the themes she presented at a recent Royal Society ‘Transforming our future: Engineering biology’ conference.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) has published proposals for the governance of research using stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs).

Our project exploring the governance and regulation of neural organoids has advanced with a roundtable event attended by researchers and regulatory experts from across this diverse and interdisciplinary area of research.

Danielle Hamm, Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, summarises the top points made during a workshop we hosted exploring the emerging ethical implications of engineering biology.