Birth of industry 5.0: Making sense of big data with artificial intelligence,“the internet of things” and next-generation technology policy

V Özdemir, N Hekim - Omics: a journal of integrative biology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Driverless cars with artificial intelligence (AI) and automated supermarkets run by
collaborative robots (cobots) working without human supervision have sparked off new …

Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: a multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses

C Dupras, KM Saulnier, Y Joly - Social Studies of Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Epigenetics, defined as 'the study of mitotically and/or meiotically heritable changes in gene
function that cannot be explained by changes in DNA sequence', has emerged as a …

Three decades of ethical, legal, and social implications research: Looking back to chart a path forward

DD Dolan, SSJ Lee, MK Cho - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
More than thirty years ago in the United States, the National Center for Human Genome
Research (NCHGR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its partner in the Human …

Embedding responsible innovation within synthetic biology research and innovation: insights from a UK multi-disciplinary research centre

M Pansera, R Owen, D Meacham… - Journal of Responsible …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade the discourse of responsible innovation (RI) has become a significant
feature of debates concerning the relationships between science, innovation and society in …

Of rats and women: Narratives of motherhood in environmental epigenetics

M Kenney, R Müller - BioSocieties, 2017 - Springer
Environmental epigenetics is the study of how environmental signals affect gene expression.
Within this growing field of molecular biology, experiments on the epigenetic effects of …

Five rules of thumb for post-ELSI interdisciplinary collaborations

AS Balmer, J Calvert, C Marris… - Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we identify five rules of thumb for interdisciplinary collaboration across the
natural and social sciences. We link these to efforts to move away from the 'ethical, legal and …

What can science and technology studies learn from art and design? Reflections on 'Synthetic Aesthetics'

J Calvert, P Schyfter - Social Studies of Science, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper we reflect on a project called 'Synthetic Aesthetics', which brought together
synthetic biologists with artists and designers in paired exchanges. We–the STS researchers …

From affect to action: Choices in attending to disconcertment in interdisciplinary collaborations

M Smolka, E Fisher… - Science, Technology, & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Reports from integrative researchers who have followed calls for sociotechnical integration
emphasize that the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration to inflect the social shaping of …

Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome

B Greenhough, CJ Read, J Lorimer, J Lezaun… - Palgrave …, 2020 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an important emergent area of cross, multi and transdisciplinary
study. The complexity of this topic leads to conflicting narratives and regulatory challenges. It …

Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems

C Morris, M Kaljonen, K Aavik, B Balázs… - Humanities and Social …, 2021 - nature.com
Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental
challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals …