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The Secret of Life is a series of eight, 60-minute programs for PBS broadcast with extensive educational and outreach materials. The goal of the program is to make molecular biology intelligible to…

The purpose of this project is to investigate the stigmatization of the sick as it applies to new developments in genetic testing, screening, and diagnostics. Using the methods of medical and social…

Educational objectives of the Human Genome Mapping Center at Stanford University will be achieved by an educational outreach program designed to provide the public with a basic, working understanding…

This project is a multi-step cooperative educational effort to target both consumers and multidisciplinary health professionals for education on the Human Genome Project and its ethical, legal, and…

Building on the experiences and products of the Human Genome Education Model Project (1993-1997), Georgetown University Child Development Center and the Alliance of Genetic Support groups plan to use…

This project will develop ethical guidance for presymptomatic testing for autosomal dominant, late onset diseases for which genetic probes are available (familial Alzheimer disease, amyotrophic…

In this project a random sample of 60 young obstetric providers in Maryland and 10 pregnant women age 33 and over per provider (nested design) will be selected to accomplish three goals. First, we…

How did scientists come to view organisms and molecules as information storage and retrieval systems? By which processes did life come to be conceptualized as a text written in a natural language? By…

This pilot project will invite adult members of classic and variant Li-Fraumeni families at 50% risk of carrying an altered p53 gene to participate in a program in which they could be made aware of…

In 1987 the Education Division of the Foundation for Blood Research developed, field tested, and distributed a human genetics curriculum unit for high school biology classes. The unit, titled '…