Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains a large variety of media materials, including news reports, interviews with staff, press conferences, lab footage, symposia, meetings, and others. Formats include VHS, audio cassette, BetaCam, DVD, CD, and others. The majority of the materials were created during the years of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003) but also include more recent materials.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains a large variety of media materials, including news reports, interviews with staff, press conferences, lab footage, symposia, meetings, and others. Formats include VHS, audio cassette, BetaCam, DVD, CD, and others. The majority of the materials were created during the years of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003) but also include more recent materials.

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Animation of DNA; interview with James Watson about interest in genes and DNA; Watson and Crick's discovery of double helix structure of DNA; Human Genome Project; Francis Collins talks about Human Genome Project; finding genes for diseases; positional cloning - using families to find disease genes; Lowe's syndrome gene; gene therapy

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Documentary about race.  Explanation of how race is defined and viewed; lack of genetic markers that define race; biology of human variation; comparing athletes; Alan Goodman speaks about needing paradigm shift in perspective for understanding race; race not based in biology but is an idea ascribed to biology; history of race and biology; Mary Claire King speaks about melatonin and need for vitamin D; Joseph Graves speaks about population differences based on distance;

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Documentary about race.  How the "story" of race was created.  History of the idea of race, how it developed and took hold as a worldview.  

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Documentary about race.  Joseph Graves Jr speaks about how people think about and define race; Alan Goodman speaks about cultural lens creating race, not biology; race as a social construct, laws and practices, not genetics; How immigrants fit into American racial structure

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Sample reel - Habitat for Humanity; Adventist Health Net; Orphan program

Scope and Contents Interview with Francis Collins about genetic research and testing; discovery of hereditary factors in breast cancer in Jewish women, studies of other ethnic groups for alterations in the breast cancer gene, whether it is a good idea to test Jewish women for this gene - not yet ready for general medical practice, just research at this time; role of genetic testing - preventive medicine, importance of community participation; Interview with Larry Brody about finding alterations in BRCA1 gene...

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Leslie Fink talks about the beginning of the Human Genome Project

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CBS This Morning - Ataxia Telangiectasia - family who has tw children with AT; family set up foundation to do research and opened a clinic for AT children at Johns Hopkins