2009 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript

This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2009. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.

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What made you begin to like science?      Greg Feero, M.D., Ph.D.: I work to help make emerging genetic technologies more accessible to health professionals. I always spent a lot of time outside and love nature. Somewhere in grade school I began to think genetics and molecular biology was really interesting - it started at about the time enzymes that cut DNA made early genetic engineering of bacteria possible.... and took off from there. East Haven High School in CT (10th grade student)

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