HST 701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Human Genome Project, Molecular Biology, Disability Insurance
29 Nov 2016
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Hst 701 - scientific technology and modern society. > department of energy needed research funding at los alamos etc. > national institutes of health opposed physicists doing genetics. > us government funded joint program to keep us lead over japan. > goal: new money-generating (and life-saving) genetics based therapies. Why did the european union become involved. Us national defence and energy funding was being cut. Los alamos, lawrence berkeley and livermore national laboratories needed new funding. Genetics discovery 1(cid:624)(cid:623)0s: some cancers caused by (cid:359)oncogenes(cid:360) Oncogenes: factors that are hereditary or part of your genes for you to be more at risk for cancers. Nobel laureate renata delbecco suggested cancer research needed complete sequence of human dna to figure out what is going on within cancerous cells. Human genome: 46 chromosomes, 3 billion base pairs. Each cell in our body has a copy of this dna. 1980s human genome estimate: 300 000 genes. Identify genes linked to cancer, alcoholism, genetic disabilities.
