Competing interests

and nanotechnology. The next decade is likely to see more profound advances in the medical and biological sciences than have ever occurred. Synthetic biology is just one example. These will present both unprec-edented opportunities for the promotion of both human health and well-being, but also unique threats and risks to human health, society and the environment. They will raise profound questions of justice and regulation. How we decide ethically to use tech-nology, science and medicine will become more important questions than how we go about discovering the causal structure of the world. We will seek to place the JME as the axis of reflection, discussion and counsel concerning some of the deepest and most important ethical ques-tions that humanity has faceddwe will aim to make it the ethics journal of the future