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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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Francis Collins speaks about the completion of the sequence of C. elegans worm and what it means for sequencing the human genome, similarities between human and worm genes; international collaboration

Scope and Contents Washington University - C. elegans; publication of worm's complete genome; First genetic sequence for organism with more than one cell; scientists working in lab; ability of scientists to use worm's genes to determine what genes do in humans and find disease genes; Francis Collins compares genetic sequencing to space exploration and getting worm sequence like going to the moon; sequencing human genome; Interview with Francis Collins about sequencing C. elegans; increasing speed of...

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Huntington's disease support group discussing genetic testing

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