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Genome Project
U.S.
HGP on Fast Track
DOE
Joint Genome Institute Exceeds Goal
New
5-Year Goals
Faster
Sequencing with BACs
Mapping
with STCs and STSs
Availability
of BAC Clones and STC Data
BAC
Related Websites
BAC
Resource Success Story
Scientists
Hunt SNPs for Variation, Disease
Who's
Sequencing the Human Genome?
Genomics
Progress in Science
EMSL
Promotes Remote Access to Instrumentation
Second
Private-Sector Sequencing Project
GeneMap'98
In the News
Team
Delivers C. elegans Sequence
Why
Sequence Entire Genomes? Worm's Eye View
Embnet.news on
Web
European
Biotech Program
DOE
BER Research Update
Hollaender
Fellows Named
SBIR
1998 Human Genome Awards Announced
Mouse
Resources
Mouse
Consortium for Functional Genomics
Chlamydia Genome
Analysis
HUGO
Merges Offices, Web Sites
Microbial Genomics
Superbug Deinococcus
radiodurans
Unfinished
Microbial Genomes Searchable
TIGR
Releases Chlorobium tepidum Sequence
DOE
MGP Abstracts Online
Microbial
TV Series
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
and Educational Resources
Cambridge
ELSI Symposium
Eric
Lander, Genetics in the 21st Century
Mark
Rothstein, Genetic Privacy
James
Wilson, Gene Therapy Present & Future
LeRoy
Walters, Ethical Issues in Gene Therapy
DNA
Files on NPR, Internet
Innovative
Biotechnology Curriculum
Short
Course for Biology Teachers
Microbial
TV Series
Proteomics
Looking
at Proteins to Understand Expression
2-DGE: Protein
Visualization, Modification
Tool
for Protein Analysis
TREMBL
Release 6
R&D
100 Award Goes to LANL's SOLVE
NIH
Awards Proteomics Grant to Axys
E.
coli Proteome Database
Genetics in Medicine
National
Organization for Rare Disorders
Translation
of Genetics to Medicine: New Website
Cancer
Genetics Web Site
HuGem
Website Offers Education in New Genetics
Calculation
of Genetic Risks 2nd Edition
New Genetics
Manual Offered
Mutation
Research Genomics Online
Informatics
GDB
Database Operations Restored
In
Silico Biology: Bioinformatics Journal
Computational
Methods Book Available
Bioinformatics
Guide
BioToolKit
Gene-Finding
Programs at Sanger
New
Sequin Version
Tandem
Repeat Tool
Sequence
Viewer
SmithKline
Licenses Gene Logic Software
Influenza
Database at LANL
TRANSFAC
Database
p53
Mutation Database
TBASE
at Jackson Laboratory
Intein
Database on Web
System
Identifies Polymorphisms
Web, Other Resources, Publications
1999
Oakland Workshop Website
Launchpad
to Human Chromosomes
Nature
Genetics Supplement
Funding
DOE
Office of Science Grants and Contracts
NHGRI
National Service Award Fellowships
NCI
Technologies for Molecular Analysis
NIH:
Netork for Large-Scale Mouse Sequencing
NHGRI:
Genomic Technology Development
US
Genome Research Funding
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Genome
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The Human Genome Project: Science, Law, and Social Change in the 21st Century
Reports from Cambridge Symposium
The highly successful symposium, "The Human Genome Project: Science, Law, and Social Change in the 21st Century," was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 23-24, 1998. It was sponsored by the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research and the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and supported in part by the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues component of the DOE Human Genome Program. This largest ELSI meeting ever was attended by more than 840 lawyers, judges, physicians, state legislators, journalists, educators, students, consumer advocates, and religious leaders. Topics at plenary sessions and breakout groups included genetic privacy, DNA databanks, genetic discrimination, doctor-patient relationships, gene therapy, newborn screening, and gene alteration.
Highlights of several selected plenary talks are given below. Eric Lander set the stage, describing the science behind the Human Genome Project. Mark Rothstein spoke on protecting genetic privacy, which is increasingly important as genetic tests become available. The final two speakers, James Wilson and LeRoy Walters, discussed gene therapy, a class of disease prevention or treatment expected to become more available as technologies unravel the genetic factors involved in disease.
Articles about the talks are listed below:
A Free CD-ROM is also available. It includes meeting syllabus, plenary talk transcripts, and Web site links. Contact Gus Cervini.
The electronic form of the newsletter may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v10n1-2).
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