Supplement Editor's Overview

Editors’ Note: Volume Overview

Editors’ Overview: Experiments, Ethics, and New Technologies

Technology has always been a vital component of human development, most often aimed at the advancement of human well-being. However, the introduction of new technologies may also introduce harmful consequences. Indeed, we often do not know beforehand the full spectrum of potential impacts and hazards that these new technologies may bring about. Conventional approaches to risk governance are not...

From the Guest Editors: Nursing Home Litigation: An Overview

Editors’ Overview: Moral Responsibility in Technology and Engineering

From its earliest issue back in 1995, responsibility has been a major theme in the Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics. Although the focus of attention and conceptions of responsibility vary considerably over the different articles, the prevalence of responsibility as a topic is remarkable. On a superficial reading, we could see it as the logical corollary of the importance of responsibil...

ll|llllManual Supplement Ligase Chain Reaction (LCR) --Overview and Applications

1Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; 2Department of Plant Pathology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Corneli University, Geneva, New York 14456; 3Department of Microbiology, Hearst Microbiology Research Center, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021 PCR has facilitated the development of a variety of nucleic acid-based de...