title: Biotechnology and human rights.
abstract: Biotechnology permits our world to progress. It's a tool to better apprehend the human being, but as well to let him go ahead. Applied to the living, biotechnologies present the same finality. But since their matter concerns effectively the living, they are the sources of specific dangers and particularly of that one to use the improvements obtained on the human to modify the human species. The right of the persons has to find its place to avoid that the fundamental rights of the human personality shall undergo harm. This mission assigned to the right of the persons is as so much invaluable that the economical stakes are particularly important in the domain of the biotechnologies.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recherche Juridique de l'Ouest (IODE, UMR CNRS n(o) 6050), Faculté de Droit et de Science Politique, Rennes, France. brigitte.le-mintier@univ-rennes1.fr
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Feuillet-Le Mintier
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000639:trends*; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D015894:Genome, Human; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans