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The Sulston Project: Making the Knowledge Commons for Interpreting Inherited Cancer Risk More Effective
The Sulston Project is a joint research effort at Arizona State University and Baylor College of Medicine named after John Sulston, the champion of open science who, with Bob Waterston, crafted the… -
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Developing Resources for DNA Testing at the Border: BorderDNA Working Group
Emerging technological advances and political shifts have expanded immigration-related DNA applications beyond relationship tests within a family for visa petitions. Several U.S. government programs… -
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From Trainees to Scholars: Three ELSI Career Paths
ELSI scholarship is constantly evolving as new technologies raise new ethical challenges and questions. For younger scholars in the field, this presents ample opportunity to explore original topics… -
ELSIhub Collections
ELSIhub Collections | Race, Genetics, and Genetics Education
Click here for all ELSIhub Collections Collection Editors Brian M. Donovan, PhD, Research Scientist, BSCS Science Learning Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,… -
ELSIhub Collections
ELSIhub Collections | Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) at the Intersection of Genomics and Infectious Disease
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Ethical Issues in Pediatric Gene Therapy Clinical Trials
The Working Group on Pediatric Gene Therapy and Medical Ethics (PGTME) was created in 2019 to study ethical issues surrounding research in genetic interventions for pediatric populations. -
New Research
Natural and social scientists differ in their conceptualization and use of race at a critical moment
In a recent contribution to the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, Jada Benn Torres reviews the “race-as-biology” paradigms that were promulgated early in the discipline and tracks the emergence of… -
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LawSeqSM: Confronting the Legal Barriers to Genomic Medicine
On December 2, 2020 national experts convened for a Zoom webinar on “LawSeqSM: Facing the Legal Barriers to Genomic Research & Precision Medicine.” This event grew out of a project funded by the…