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"We used to think our future was in the stars. Now we know it is in our genes."

James Watson, Nobel Prize Winner and developer of the Human Genome Project

Related Websites

Glossaries of Genome/Human Genetics Terms:
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/glossary.html

Sony's Gattaca Website:
http://www.gattaca.com/

Genetic Engineering and Its Dangers by Ron Epstein
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/gedanger.htm

BBC's "Life and Death in the 21st Century: Designer Babies"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/designer_babies.shtml

ABC's "Babies of the Future"
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000living/babies2000.html

Australian Gene Ethics Network
http://www.geneethics.org/

Council for Responsible Genetics
http://www.gene-watch.org/

The Indigenous Peoples Council on Biopiracy
http://www.ipcb.org/

USF Web site for April 98 Conference Human Cloning: Science, Ethics & Public Policy
http://www.usfca.edu/cloning/

Links and annotated list from Human Genome Project
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/links3.html

The Gene Letter
http://www.geneletter.org/

The Ethics of Genetics (Monday, November 30, 1998)
http://www.policy.com/issuewk/1998/1130_4 5/index.html

American Civil Liberties Union Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace Fact Sheet
http://www.aclu.org/issues/worker/gdfactsheet.html

Genetic Alliance Genetic Discrimination Resources
http://www.geneticalliance.org/geneticissues.html

Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works: "How Designer Children Will Work"
http://www.howstuffworks.com/designer-children.htm

 



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