Transparency in Biotech Governance: What Informed Citizens Request from Xenotransplantation.
Transparency has become a fundamental public value and a linchpin for effective policymaking. Accordingly, emerging biotechnologies, along with their regulatory and implementation frameworks, are increasingly evaluated against this standard. To illustrate this point, we draw on the example of a citi...
| Publicado en: | NanoEthics Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16 |
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Apr2026
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