About a decade ago, President William Clinton said that the next half century will be the age
of biology, and, that the engine of that age is genetics. Partly because of the Human …

On April 25th of this year [2003], we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the elucidation of
the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick, an accomplishment of which we are all extremely …

After the Second World War, a US intelligence ser-vices officer investigating the Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology and Human Heredity commented that one German …

The law is a mandate and a mirror; it both commands and reflects. It should not come as a
shock that scientists and physicians often prefer the mirror at times when society seems to …

The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate
and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and …

The Human Genome Project has been big news. After a much publicized race between the
private and public sectors, the human genome has been completely decoded …

Human genetics has been—and still is—very much at the crossroads of science and politics.
The confusion that comes from conflating science and politics is a chronic problem which is …

Abstract The US Human Genome project is the largest scientific project funded by the
federal government since the Apollo Moon Project. The overall effect from this project should …

Humankind is embarked on an extraordinary adventure, an adventure promising rewards
that could barely have been imagined as recently as a generation ago. But human genetic …

Reality is often profoundly altered by scientific and technical innovation. These changes
occur unexpectedly and swiftly. Yet many people in our society know nothing about science …