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Major research projects focued on regenerative medicine, social aspects of the neurosciences and psychopharmacology, biosecurity, biopolitics, bioeconomics, translational biology and bioethics. BIOS ran an innovative
Masters programme in Biomedicine and Society attracting students from backgrounds in
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BIOS was a multidisciplinary centre at LSE for research into contemporary developments in the life sciences, biomedicine and biotechnology. It was an initiative between the
Department of Sociology, with the support of the Departments of Social Psychology, Government and Law and the Centre for
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BIOS's ethos wass one of empirically grounded and conceptually sophisticated research, conducted in close relation with life scientists, clinicians and policy makers. Among the issues addressed are justice, power and inequality, geopolitics, social and individual identity.
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