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Symposium - Francis Collins introduces the symposium and discusses the topics that will be covered; Harold Varmus speaks about visionary difficulties, focusing on individual genes; Leroy Hood speaks about future of biological and biotechnological information, deciphering biological information; Arnold Levine speaks about where cancer research and treatment might be going in the future, interactions between onca genes and receptor genes

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Symposium - Francis Collins introduces the speakers; Aravinda Chakravarti speaks about genetic dissection of human polygenic disease: neomendelian paradigm - analysis of what is happening in human polygenic disease, examples, and what comes next; Kay Jamison speaks about ethical and social concerns about what it means when we find the genes, manic depressive illness as a case in point for social and ethical issues;

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Symposium - Francis Collins introduces the speakers; Gerald Fink speaks about the yeast genome and sequencing; George Rose speaks about where the genome project might be going.

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Symposium - Francis Collins introduces the speakers; Sean Carroll speaks about evolution of animal body plans, understanding morphological evolution, arthropods as a model (Drosophila); Mary-Claire King speaks about human genome diversity, population genetics, evolution and epidemiology of genetic variants; Eric Lander speaks about future of the genome project and biology

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Symposium - Eric Lander speaks about the future of the human genome project (continued from tape 4 (SY0040))

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News reports on Parkinson's being genetic, geneticists narrowing search to chromosome 4; Zach Hall reports findings; Jeffery Trent talks about narrowing search and looking for gene; Italian family with many cases of Parkinsons key to helping narrow location of gene;

Scope and Contents Understanding the genetic code; discovery of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick; James Watson speaks about investigating DNA and discovering how it worked; discovery of messenger RNA and understanding the genetic code; Human Genome Project to sequence every base pair of the human genome; Francis Collins speaks about the HGP and genetic diseases; define techniques and develop technology for HGP; develop human genetic map; discovery of genes for genetic diseases; positional cloning to find...

Scope and Contents Finding genes that contribute to genetic disorders; risks of finding out you're at greater risk for genetic disorder; couple who find out they are carriers of Cystic fibrosis gene when pregnant (Marilyn Lewis Hampton and Jim Hampton), find out twins have cystic fibrosis and decide to have them; Philip Reilly talks about need for education with genetic testing, especially when they are testing for diseases with no treatment/cure; genetics of heart disease and genetic testing (Dr Daniel...

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Lecture by Randall Scott, Ph.D. on "Pharmaceutical applications of high-throughput DNA sequencing moving molecular biology into the information age."  Talk about where he thinks the genome project is heading and how that will have an impact on medicine, where industry is heading in terms of genomics

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Lecture by David Burke on micro fabricated structures for integrated DNA analysis.