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The 2010 Eurobarometer on the life sciences

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Figure 1: Index of optimism about six technologies.

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The authors designed, analyzed and interpreted the results of the Eurobarometer 73.1 survey on the Life Sciences and Biotechnology as part of the research project Sensitive Technologies and European Public Ethics (STEPE), funded by the Science in Society Programme of the EC's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7).

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  1. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

    George Gaskell, Jonathan Jackson & Sally Stares

  2. University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Agnes Allansdottir

  3. University of Essex, Colchester, UK

    Nick Allum

  4. ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Portugal

    Paula Castro

  5. Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Yilmaz Esmer

  6. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, France

    Claude Fischler

  7. Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria

    Nicole Kronberger & Wolfgang Wager

  8. Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany

    Jurgen Hampel

  9. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Niels Mejlgaard

  10. Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal

    Alex Quintanilha

  11. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia

    Andu Rammer

  12. University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Gemma Revuelta

  13. Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

    Helge Torgersen

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Gaskell, G., Allansdottir, A., Allum, N. et al. The 2010 Eurobarometer on the life sciences. Nat Biotechnol 29, 113–114 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1771

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