News coverage of conference on genetics and violent crime and a protest by people who oppose the research; whether the research is racist

ABC News report on preventing health insurance from denying health insurance based on genetic test results, President Clinton leading the move to prevent health insurance companies from using genetic information in determining insurance coverage; FOX News report on the same

Dr Mark McClellan talking about treatments not being used effectively for cancer care, Medicare coverage

Japanese news show, discussing human genome reseach; with Professor Yusuke Nakamura, Professor Shin0ichi Takemura, and Yoshihiro Ohtaki (president of Biofrontier Partners); explanation of DNA; Francis Collins translated into Japanese; scientists working in lab; discussion with guests

News reports - Johns Hopkins University identifies colon cancer gene mutation that affects Ashkenazi Jews; Dr Bert Vogelstein speaks about the discovery and its implications; blood test to be available

News report on cloning "Dawn of a brave new world" - Dolly the cloned sheep; poll on cloning of sheep, cloning for medical research, cloning of humans (10% yes, 87% no); how cloning works, how cloned humans will be different and shaped by environment; Francis Collins speaks about cloning; potential ethical issues and conltrol of cloning; Collins speaks about benefits and potential for misuse of genetic discoveries

News report on potential genetic engineering - movie Gattaca; Francis Collins speaks about whether Gattaca is realistic in terms of genetic capability; genetic basis of many features but not predictable enough to manipulate; finding genes for diseases and testing for them is good; Collins thinks its good  that Gattaca makes people think about issues;

The best of 1996 - Profile of Dr  Francis Collins and the Human Genome Project, mapping genes to find diseases; Collins speaks about importance of the HGP; footage of him riding motocycle, playing guitar and singing with family; list of 72 disease genes discovered; speaks about historical moment of understanding human genome.

Breakthroughs in genetic research, speed of technology, genetic tests raising questions.  Staci Mishkin's family history of breast cancer; Staci took test for breast cancer and tested negative, then tested positive for a different mutation in BRCA1; risk of developing breast cancer 90%.  Decided to have double mastectomy and ovaries removed; question of whether it is the right thing to do, hard decision,

Profile on Rodney Wiltshire - scientist and grad student at NIH in the Human Genome research division, looking at skin cancer