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Biography of the Year - Francis Collins and Craig Venter, men in charge of deciphering the human genome.  Highlights the completion of the draft of the human genome, characterizes it as a product of bitter rivalry; profiles both Collins and Venter and the Human Genome Project; history of Human Genome Project and profile of James Watson; ethical concerns of the project

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Continuation of tape 11 - talk about malaria genomics and proteomics by Dr. Widerall; closing of symposium

Scope and Contents Video played at the symposium - "Deciphering Natures Alphabet", Imagining the Genome; Daniel Kelves speaks about the Human Genome Project; Lee Hood speaks about starting the project; Robert Sinsheimer speaks about the possibility of sequencing the Human Genome; Walter Gilbert, David Bolstein speak about reactions to the idea; Tool building - David Baltimore speaks about the technology DNA sequencing combining fields; The Alberts committee; Launching the Human Genome Project; Ethical Legal...

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Continuation from Tape #3 - Eric Lander speaks about the future of the Human Genome Project - "Beyond the Genome"; James Watson lecture by Shirley Tillman - presentation by James Watson of his book "The Double Helix" to Tillman, talks about James Watson's contributions to the Human Genome Project and how biologists contribute to science, lessons learned from the Human Genome Project

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Video played at the symposium - on the Impact of the Human Genome Project, future of medicine; Robert Waterson speaks about the mouse genome; Eric Green speaks about comparison of human genome sequence to that of other animals; Pat Brown speaks about genome's life stories, diversity between cells; David Haussler speaks about computational genomics, bioinformatics of mammalian genomes, sequence assembly, genome browsers, and computing evolution's path

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David Bentley speaks about human genetic variation "Uncharted territory"; Ari Patrinos speaks about 'The Road Ahead" and what the Department of Energy will be doing; Francis Collins speaks about the vision for the future of the Human Genome Project and the statement made by the heads of 6 nations whose scientists participated in the project

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2nd day of symposium.  Moderated panel discussion on genomics for researching disease. Janet Rowley speaks about "From the genome to successful treatment for leukemia"; Richard Lifton speaks about genetic and genomic insights into cardiovascular disease; Nancy Cox speaks about research in diabetes "Paradigms for the genetic component of diabetes"; Dr Adrian Hill speaks about gene identification for infectious disease resistance

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Continuation of Tape 8 - John Hardy speaks about "Genetic Analysis Reveals Unexpected Connections Between Neurodegenerative Diseases", Alzheimer's, Prion disease, Parkinson's disease, Picks disease, Progressive Supernuclear palsy; Aravinda Chakravarti speaks on genomic views on psychiatric illness, neuropsychiatric disorders; Panel discussion with Tony Monaco, Thomas Friedman, Val Sheffield, John Hardy, and Aravinda Chakravarti taking questions from the audience

Scope and Contents Implications of genomics for health care.  Dr Wiley Burke speaks about reducing risk in people with genetic susceptibility and using genetic information to devleop new treatments to diseases, when is genetic risk factor useful information and when is it not; Peter Goodfellow speaks about "Genes, Genomics and Drugs", funding and expectation of new treatments (drugs), drug discovery process; Questions for Wiley Burke and Peter Goodfellow; Harold Freeman speaks about race, science and genomics,...

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Scientific symposium - introductory speaker talking about human genome and evolution, Francis Collins introduces the symposium, declares goals of Human Genome Project to be completed; Ari Petrinos speaks and welcomes attendees on behalf of Department of Energy; Presentations by Francis Crick (prepared video) and James Watson