The purpose of Life Sciences, Society and Policy (LSSP) is to analyze social, ethical and legal dimensions of the most dynamic branches of life sciences and technologies, and to discuss ways to foster responsible innovation, sustainable development, and user-driven social policies. LSSP provides an academic forum for an engaged scholarship at the intersection of life sciences, philosophy, bioethics, science studies, and policy research, and covers a broad area of inquiry both in emerging research areas such as genomics, bioinformatics, biophysics, molecular engineering, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology and in more applied fields such as translational medicine, food science, environmental science, climate studies, research on anima...