SCHEDULE 16Synthetic biology

InterpretationI11

In this Schedule—

  • basic scientific research” means experimental or theoretical work undertaken principally to acquire new knowledge of the fundamental principles of phenomena or observable facts and not primarily directed towards a specific practicable aim or objective;

  • medicine” means—

    1. i

      any substance or combination of substances presented as having properties of preventing or treating disease in human beings or animals;

    2. ii

      any substance or combination of substances that may be used by or administered to human beings or animals with a view to—

      1. aa

        restoring, correcting or modifying a physiological function by asserting a pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action;

      2. bb

        making a medical diagnosis;

  • services” means routine synthetic biology processes that are outsourced to specialist providers for completion before being re-integrated into the original work stream to assemble into an experiment or goods, including making a specific strand of DNA or running a proprietary algorithm on a dataset.