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cord-030279-pv770doe	Novossiolova, Tatyana	Twenty-first Century Governance Challenges in the Life Sciences	2016-11-29		.txt	text/plain	15222	743	42	From 'dual-use life science research of concern' through the rise of amateur biology to the advent of personalised medicine, the chapter exposes the limitations of the existing governance mechanisms in accommodating the multifaceted ethical, social, security, and legal concerns arising from cutting-edge scientific and technological developments. Indeed, rapid advances in the field have produced a knowledge base and set of tools and techniques that enable biological processes to be understood, manipulated and controlled to an extent never possible before 5 ; they have found various applications in numerous spheres of life, generating enormous benefits and offering bright prospects for human betterment; and they have come to be regarded as a key driver of economic development with potential to close the gap between resource-rich and resource-poor countries.	./cache/cord-030279-pv770doe.txt	./txt/cord-030279-pv770doe.txt