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Join us on Wednesday, May 25, as scholars and scientists answer audience questions and address the complexities surrounding historical and present-day eugenics and scientific racism in the context of existing and developing genetic and genomic screening technologies.
… autonomous, fulfilling lives.  Emerging genome sequencing technology may lead to the widespread use of genome … part of the discussion about their genetic and/or genomic information?    Do interventions reduce the prevalence of …
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The Human Genome Project changed traditional understandings of how and why scientific research is conducted. It was, however, not without its detractors. Early in 1990, there was an effort to stop funding for the nascent Human Genome Project, in the form of a letter writing campaign.
… endless lines of letters with “no interesting biological information.” According to the Coleman, the project “wouldn’t … and that are being actively investigated today.   For more information on what we now refer to as “non-coding DNA,” … (as outlined in the  Bermuda Principles ) of the genomic information generated. This kind of policy was made possible …
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On January 25, 2023, the National Human Genome Research Institute will hold a roundtable on social and behavioral genomics.
… Moderator: Ashley Smart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniel Benjamin, University of California, Los … the public. Follow #NHGRIevents on social media for more information.   Agenda Biographies Additional Resources …
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The Gene Sweepstakes — or GeneSweep as it became popularly known — was a three-year-long, sweepstakes-style contest organized by British bioinformatician Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Scientists participated in the contest by betting on the total number of protein-coding genes that would be identified in the human genome sequence generated by the Human Genome Project.
… website thus became a key place to get the most up-to-date information about the collection of identified human genomes. …