In the ongoing debate that was (re)ignited with Bill Joy's April 2000 article in Wired magazine ("Why the future doesn't need us"), Francis Fukuyama writes about biotech regulation in the Winter 2002 issue of The Public Interest. Abstract/summary/intro included below.

How to Regulate Science
By Francis Fukuyama

Both those who embrace new biotechnologies and those who are wary of them tend to claim that the advance of science is beyond social control. Francis Fukuyama argues that this fatalism is mistaken: Science can be effectively regulated, if we possess the political will to do so. Existing regulatory agencies such as the FDA, however, are not the right organizations for this new and distinctive work.

(Note: this is a temporary URL -- this article will go offline or be moved in Spring 2002.)

I am just passing this along for now...not going to comment on it because I don't have time to read through it and think yet....I just skimmed.