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The teaser for Emilia Tikka's speculative artwork based on concepts of genome editing is available here . © Emilia Tikka Emilia Tikka has spent the last two months as the Artist in Residence at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC). She has been working closely...

Who hasn’t heard about genome editing in the last few years? With over 10.000 PubMed entries, it is unsurprising that the scientific community and beyond are familiar with the term. The latest tool in the genome editing kit, CRISPR-Cas, allows scientists to make changes in the genetic material of a cell or an entire organism in a way that is easier, cheaper and faster than any previous genome editing technology.

Our report "Public attitudes to life sciences research in six European countries" shows that interest in life sciences research is generally high among citizens and that the three most accepted purposes of using genome editing are related to the medical field. 6000 persons were interviewed in this pan-European study which was led by the ORION partners VA in Sweden and CEITEC in the Czech Republic.

The aim with ORION is to explore ways in which research and funding organisations in life sciences and biomedicine can open up the way they fund, organise, and practice research. We have recently conducted a study in six European countries about the public’s attitudes toward Open Science and genome editing. At ESOF 2018 we would like to have your views.

The State Festival in partnership with the Max-Delbrück-Centre for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association and the ORION project are bringing science and art together by launching an Open Call for an Artist Residency on the topic of Genome Editing. As part of the work of the ORION project to...