What is the advantage and disadvantage of having gene bank? and World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati speaks at the public lecture: From People Power to Accountable Government,

What is the advantage and disadvantage of having gene bank?

I am gonna have debate in this subject and I dont really find anything negative with gene bank?


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Answer by gardengallivant
Who has access and who is restricted from access.

A plant gene bank that provided access only to those with power or money would be an abuse of the bio-repositories public purpose by restricting access to possible monopolies.
Access should be open to any accredited researchers in public or private groups with evidence, such as peer-reviewed publications in accredited journals that indicate that the receiving scientist knows how to work with the requested materials. Requests should only be limited to researchers that have a suitable lab and technical expertise to handle, store and safely dispose of the genetic or biological material by current standard scientific practices, because the materials are limited in quantity.



Who owns plant varieties & cultivars and who owns or has access to the wild collected plant stock placed in the seed bank & gene bank. Some of these wild type plants have gone extinct in the wild so exist only in stored seed and tissue samples.
http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/ch04/p06/


Human gene banks should not be open with the source information. Humans have a right to privacy. There is a question of abuse with any database with personal information.
https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/aclu-warns-privacy-abuses-government-plan-expand-dna-databases
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/104/1/116.full
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7885073

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World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati speaks at the public lecture: From People Power to Accountable Government,


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September 21, 2011 - Washington DC. 2011World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings. Public Lecture: From People Power to Accountable Government, with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III. World Bank Managin Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati. Photo: © Deborah Campos / World Bank

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