21. Biography: Ronald Green
National Institute for Human Genome
Research, where he aided in the establishment the Office of Genome Ethics.
Professor Green is as a member of the Bioethics Committee of the March of Dimes
Birth Defects Foundation.
Professor Green is Vice
- 3.9kb
22. Biography: Karen Lebacqz
genetics and the Human Genome Project), and ethical
theory (particularly justice and questions of method in ethics). Her
publications include more than six books, among them Justice in An Unjust
World , Sex in the Parish, and the recent
- 4.6kb
23. Biography: Laurie Zoloth
Social
Issues of the Human Genome ) Grant to explore the ethical issues after the
mapping of the human genome.
Search
for Laurie Zoloth
Biography Index
Next >
- 2.9kb
24. General Term: HGP
HGP Human Genome Project (also Human Genome Initiative). Started in 1988, the
scientific goal is to map and sequence the human DNA . It has a current annual
U.S. budget of $200 million with a fifteen-year timeline and a $3 billion
- 2.5kb
25. Genetics Topic: Preventing Genetic Discrimination
contained in ones
genome be controlled by the patient. This privacy defense
argument presumes that if information can be controlled, then
the rights of the individual for employment, insurance, and medical
care can be
- 4.5kb
26. Genetics Topic: Patenting Genes Some Perspectives
In
1995, the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) issued a statement
opposing the patenting of cDNAs because it would impede the free
flow of scientific information. HUGO is worried that the
patenting of partial and uncharacterized
- 6.4kb
27. Genetics Topic: Patenting Gods Creation?
key. The task of the Human Genome Project
has been to sequence the entire 3 billion nucleotides in the DNA
and to locate where on the DNA the genes are sited. Relatively
speaking, only a small portion of the DNA functions as genes-
about 3%.
- 5.0kb
28. Intelligent Design Topic: Bacterial Flagella and Dembskis Case for Int...
the role of the bacterial genome in coding for all of the
structures and functions that contribute to the nature of E. coli. E. coli
bacteria possess flagella, not because flagella self-assemble and self-attach
to the cell membrane, but because
- 10.3kb
29. Interview: 'Faith and Reason' Transcript
time. Known as the
Human Genome Project, the aim is decipher the entire genetic code of human beings, and to unlock the secrets of the 100,000 or so
genes in our DNA . The project has been called the biological equivalent of putting a man on
- 54.5kb
30. Genetics Topic: In God's Garden: Creation and Cloning in Jewish Thought
, Exogenous
Virus , Gamete , Genome , Genotype , HARTs , In Vitro , In Vivo , Intron , Mesoderm ,
Metaphase Plate , Mitochondrial DNA ,
Mitosis , Nucleotide , Nucleus , SNP , SCNT , Stem Cells , Telomere , Transgenic ,
Xenotransplantation , Zygote
- 4.4kb