ABSTRACT

As a matter of fact, the shift from the genetic to the post-genomic era has hardly been acknowledged outside of laboratories. The media, the general public, and most regulatory bodies remain attached to the appealing genocentric dogma that was initially propagated. Moreover, despite the new scientific discourses of complexity shifting the horizon from genomics to proteomics and metabolomics, the problematic privileging of genetics over the rest of biology still prevails (Herbert, 2005: 180-81).