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Heredity, Genetics, & Evolution

Gene Transfer

• Jan. 11, 2002
  CALTECH TEAM FINDS CHEAPER GENE-TRANSPLANT METHOD from Reuters

Mendelian Genetics

• An intro genetics class site (Palomar College) - includes glossary page

Human Heredity & Disease

• Human Genetic Disorders & Genes
  • 19 Feb 2002
    INTELLIGENCE GENES PROVE HARD TO MAP from The Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • Jan. 22, 2002
    Researchers find second prostate cancer gene from The Associated Press
  • Search for info on any particular human genetic disorder
    in the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Mendelian Inheritance in Man database

Human Gene Map & Human Genome Project

• 19 Feb 2002
  AS SCIENTISTS GATHER IN BOSTON: FORGIVENESS, PHASERS, FASHION from The Boston Globe
  Clip:
  "On Saturday, Eric Lander of the MIT-affiliated Whitehead Institute delivered a lecture on the future of genomics to a standing-room only crowd and briefly thanked ''our colleagues at Celera.'' An hour later, only a few rooms away, J. Craig Venter, former head of the Celera Genomics Corp. delivered a thought-provoking, yet uncharacteristically soft-spoken, talk on how human racial differences have proved to be genetically negligible."
• Feb. 12, 2002
  
• Gene Map of the Human Genome at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/science96/ - shows the chromosome location of over 16,000 human genes with links to the underlying sequence and map data.
• Information on Selected Human Genes at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/SCIENCE96/genelist from this same site.
• The Human Genome Project information from the National Human Genome Research Institute at http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/HGP/
• July 13, 2001
  STUDY BREAKS NEW GROUND ON VARIATIONS IN GENOME from The New York Times

Stem Cells & Cloning

Human Embryo Stem Cell/Cloning Debate

• Feb. 12, 2002
  AN ATTEMPT TO CLONE HUMAN BEING IS SET TO START from The Boston Globe
• January 24, 2002
  ADULT BONE MARROW EYED AS SOURCE OF STEM CELLS from The Boston Globe
• Jan. 11, 2002
  CALIFORNIA STATE PANEL BACKS CLONING FOR RESEARCH, BUT NOT BABIES from The San Francisco Chronicle
• August 24, 2001
  STEM CELL RESEARCH FACES FDA HURDLE from The Washington Post
• August 10, 2001
  BUSH BACKS PARTIAL STEM CELL FUNDING HEADLINES:
  from The Washington Post
  
• August 2, 2001
  ISRAELI SCIENTISTS REPORT GROWING HEART CELLS FROM EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS from The Associated Press

The following are articles about announcements by three individuals who say they will continue to work toward human cloning to produce babies soon, even though leading animal cloning researchers have cautioned that it is premature due to continued difficulties in cloning of other mammals (related links in another section below).

• August 8, 2001
  Cloning clash: Rejecting pleas for caution, a group that says space aliens seeded Earth tells a key science panel it will create human copies from the San Francisco Chronicle
• August 8, 2001
  Scientists Declare Progress on Human Cloning: National Academy of Sciences Panel Assails Maverick Researchers' Credibility, Ethics from the Washington Post

Other U.S. News on Cloning/Stem Cell Issues

• July 17, 2001
  UCSF STEM CELL EXPERT LEAVING U.S from The San Francisco Chronicle

The following are news about a study published in July issue of the journal Fertility & Sterility describing a study in which human embryos were used to make stem cell lines for research. The embryos were made for the research, using eggs and sperm from donors who specifically knew and consented to the embryos being used for research. Participants were chosen to be likely to provide the healthiest embryos (ave female age under 30, for example) which is different from the profile of donors at fertility clinics (the source of embryos for other studies).

• July 11, 2001
  SCIENTISTS USE EMBRYOS MADE ONLY FOR RESEARCH from The Washington Post
• July 11, 2001
  SCIENTISTS CREATE SCORES OF EMBRYOS TO HARVEST STEM CELLS from The New York Times

July 6, 2001's Science:
Expert Rudolf Jaenisch (MIT) called for a delay in trials to produce a human child by current cloning methods.

Other stem cell/cloning links

• A pro-human cloning web site at http://www.humancloning.org/

Human Evolution

• Jan. 11, 2002
  CARVINGS SPARK DEBATE ON ORIGIN OF ABSTRACT THOUGHT from The Los Angeles Times
• July 12, 2001
  FOSSILS MAY BE EARLIEST HUMAN LINK from The New York Times
• July 12, 2001
  CAL SCHOLAR'S TEAM SAYS IT FOUND OLDEST HUMANLIKE FOSSIL from The San Francisco Chronicle

Population Genetics

• July 10, 2001
  A TREE PROJECT HELPS THE GENES OF CHAMPIONS LIVE ONfrom The New York Times

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