An on-line book looking at the ethical issues of genetic engineering with chapters on Designer Life - designer people, Strange foods in a strange world and New gene medicines for new people.
Each Fact Sheet contains an edit history, noting their creation date and date of revision/updating. Some originated as early as 1993 and all are checked and revised accordingly at least every two...
GOBASE is a taxonomically broad organelle genome database that organizes and integrates diverse data related to mitochondria and chloroplasts. GOBASE is currently expanding to include information on...
A history of biowarfare is presented and myths are discussed. The addition of genetic engineering to bacteria, fungi, and viruses creates more harmful agents, making them more infectious or more...
Cloning is the process of making a geneti- cally identical organism through nonsexual means. It has been used for many years to produce plants (even growing a plant from a cutting is a type of...
While Dolly's birth marked an incredible scientific breakthrough, it also set off questions in the scientific and global community about what -- or who -- might be next to be "duplicated." Cloning...
Information for genetic professionals, University of Kansas Medical Center, with clinical, research, and educational resources for genetic counselors, clinical geneticists, and medical geneticists
The C-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is an essential component of transcriptional
regulation and RNA processing of protein-coding genes. A large body of data also implicates the...