Genetics, Molecular Biology and the Law

This timely book provides a comprehensive treatment of the interface between the law and modern science as represented by genetics and molecular biology, albeit in a highly digestible and lucid style. Chapters are:- <ul> <li>The Basics of Molecular Biology (the genome, genetics, proteomics); <li>Criminal Law (molecular transfer processes; <li>theft of DNA; forensic mathematics; keynote cases); <li>Aspects of Civil Law (paternity and maternity; <li>retention of DNA and privacy; <li>DNA in medical law; (DNA, insurance and employment) <li>Intellectual Property (patenting genes, expressed sequence tags and single nucleotide polymorphisms, keynote cases in U.K. and U.S.A.); <li>Food (gene manipulation; aspects of tort; environmental risks); <li>International Law (genetically modified organisms, CITES and CBD, warfare and molecular biology). </ul> <i>Genetics, Molecular Biology and the Law</i> provides practitioners and academics alike with a detailed analysis of how the law is responding to the latest advances in the increasingly complex fields of molecular biology and genetics.