Durham CELLS

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Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences) is a research centre at Durham University, based in Durham Law School. It focuses on the legal and ethical issues raised by biological science, medicine and regulation: biolaw and bioethics. It was founded in December 2011^[1] and has members from anthropology, biology, law, medicine, philosophy, sociology and theology.^[2]

Durham CELLS is an established expert research centre in biolaw and bioethics.^{[3] [4]} Its activities include:

• running a research blog on issues relating to the ethical, social and regulatory issues raised by the life sciences,^{[5] [6]}
• running a blog on obstetric violence, supported by conferences and seminars,^{[7] [8] [9]}
• engaging school students with biomedicine and bioethics,^{[10] [11] [12]} and
• supporting ethics advisory committees.^{[13] [14]}