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Science News Online -
weekly science news magazine Genetics, Ethics, and Public Policy links from the National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute - contains links to Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genetics Research, information about policy and public affairs, and a glossary of genetics terms The Human Genome Diversity Project - an international project at the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA "that seeks to understand the diversity and unity of the entire human species." Declaration of Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere Regarding the Human Genome Diversity Project - statement on why many Native people oppose the HGDP. "We demand that nation-state governments and their departments do not participate, fund, or provide any assistance to the Human Genome Diversity Project or any related programs or seek to hold patents or otherwise benefit from the genetic materials taken from indigenous peoples". Ethics and Genetics links - information about biotechnology, genetic discrimination, gene therapy and screening, eugenics, by Dr. James J. Hughes who teaches in Health Administration at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington. |
