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Questions following the Lecture "Translating Genetic Advances into Improved Health Outcomes" by Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D.

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Lecture - "Pharmacogenomics and Population Groups" by Mark A. Rothstein, J.D.; Pharmacogenomics - tailoring medication to the genetics of the patient; social, ethical and legal dimensions; report on findings of a survey of 1800 people in America about genetic testing, access, research, and medications, and demographic information

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History of people with disabilities, how they are portrayed; includes lots of clips from movies, tv shows; legislation against discrimination

Scope and Contents Documentary on genetic conditions and genetic testing; Australian segment on muscular dystrophy; prenatal testing; genetic counseling; American segment on genetic counseling and testing for pregnant women - missing sound for a lot of this segment; Italian segment on Thalycemia in Sardinia and possibility of genetic testing to irradicate it; German segment on disabled women who have experienced discrimination and regard genetics as an attack on their right to exist; child with Tourettes...

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Genetic counseling for a woman who has been tested for Fragile X; testing for Fragile X of children in Denver schools; dangers of stigmatizing children with label of genetic diseaseScientists finding genes, social, ethical implications; genetic testing for cancer - profiles woman who wants to be tested; genetic tests for breast cancer and dilemma because there is no cure or course of action; Fragile X disease, genetic test available, concern about use of testing

Scope and Contents David Suzuki talks about power from knowing about the human genome, changes in approach to treating diseases, ethical questions about how we use new knowledge; DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson; looking for life forms in an active volcanic area, similar to primitive earth; fossils; DNA from ancient creatures preserved in amber; understanding the human genome; Craig Venter about working on finding all of the genes in the human brain and understanding them; process of finding genes;...

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Variation in nature, leading to new species; discussion of DNA and proteins; genetic mutations and species adaption; Plants in Hawaii; gene for making hemoglobin, malaria in West Africa - genetic mutation makes people there able to live with malaria, not die from it; sickle cell anemia in West Africa caused by inheriting two copies of the gene mutation that makes it easier to survive malaria; genetic diversity needed to adapt; how genetic mutation led to ruminants

Scope and Contents David Suzuki narrates.  Sequence of development of embryos; chicken embryo; how do cells know where to go and what to do; heart defects; cell differentiation; studying fruit flies; studying zebrafish to determine how cells know what to do and find rare mutant genes; what makes men and women different, by studying men with x-x chromosomes and looking at genes; found SRY gene that acts like control gene and determines whether baby will have ovaries or testes; test used in Mexico Olympics for...

Scope and Contents Hunt for genes that cause cancer; narrated by David Suzuki; child with retinal glaustoma cancer; mutations in control genes lead to cancer; Weinberg found genetic cause of cancer in rats; mutations causing onca genes to replicate too much triggering cancer; using knowledge of receptors to find treatment for agressive form of breast cancer; woman with breast cancer as test subject for breast cancer gene therapy that blocks receptors and worked in mice; searching for gene that causes breast...

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Excitement and doubts about biotechnology; genes from one species to another; designer animals; idea of merging humans with animals (chimera); injecting engineered genes into mouse eggs; sheep in Scotland that produce human proteins in their milk; animal rights protesters; Jeremy Rifkin raises question about right of humans to tinker with genes of animals; redesigning cows milk to order with human genes; human hemoglobin in transgenic pigs