Genetic Resources

The National Academy of Sciences (http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf/) is the host of the cloning conference discussed in the article.

"How Human Cloning Will Work" (http://www.howstuffworks.com/human-cloning.htm) is a special page from How Stuff Works.

National Human Genome Research Institute (http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/index.html ) funds research in chromosome mapping, DNA sequencing, database development, technology development for genome research, and studies of the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics research.

Natural History of Genes (http://raven.umnh.utah.edu) provides teachers with genetic science activities and hands-on experiments to illustrate how DNA, genes, and chromosomes relate to disease, conservation and more.

The Human Genome Project informational site: www.ornl.gov/hgmis/project/about.html

A free multimedia educational kit for grades 9-12: “The Human Genome Project: Exploring Our Molecular Selves,” from the National Institute of Health www.nhgri.nih.gov/educationkit

Micklos, David and Freyer, Greg (1990) DNA Science: A First Course in Recombinant DNA Technology, Cold Spring Laboratory Press and Carolina Biological Supply Company.

Articles from Nature and Science: www.ornl.gov/hgmis/project/journal.html

Sequencing database site: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq

Genome catalog: www.compbio.ornl.gov/channel

Dept. of Energy’s primer on molecular genetics: www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/primer/intro.html

Gene therapy primer from Channel 13: www.thirteen.org/innovation/show1/animation2.html

Ethical issues in human gene therapy: www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/hgn/v10n1/16walter.html

Promises and risks of new genetics: www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/judicature/article3.html

Anti-discrimination article: www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/negene.html

The public’s perception: www.publicagenda.org

The fundamentals of gene therapy: www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/gene.html

“What’s a Genome?” A publication by Celera, www.GenomeNewsNetwork.com

Celera data, annotation and tools, central site for public access to data: www.celera.com

Access to sequence information: European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI/Sanger Centre): www.ensembl.org/genome/central/

UC Santa Cruz, information on the non-redundant “working draft” of the sequence: http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu

Washington University, links to clone and accession maps of human genome: http://genome.wustl.edu/gsc/human/Mapping/

Baylor College of Medicine, a major genome sequencing center with data and tools: www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu

Genetics Resources