Current and former administrators of this ethics branch, widely referred to as ELSI ... ELSI has been part of the Human Genome Project (HGP) since Congress ...

I am a close observer of the Personal Genome Project (PGP) and one of the original ten participants. The PGP was originally conceived as a way to test novel DNA sequencing technologies on human ...

The Human Genome Project was an international research project that sequenced all of the genes found in humans. This ambitious project began in 1990 and concluded in 2003. One goal of the project ...

The Human Genome Project is revealing many dramatic examples of how genes have been "conserved" throughout evolution -- that is, genes that perform certain functions in lower animals have been ...

It is already helping the first patients – but Genomics England knows it must convince the wider public of its value, and retain trust on data security and medical ethics. The government is ...

At a March 7 meeting, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will formally launch a consortium project to develop methods for identifying and locating functional elements of the human ...

To date, the HMP has generated 3.5 terabytes - or 3.5 trillion bytes - of data, or more than 1000 times the amount produced by the original Human Genome Project. Researchers from the Department of ...

A bioinformatics project that has identified the 30,000 genes in human DNA. The goal of the Human Genome Project is to advance biomedical research and develop personalized medicine by determining ...

The genetic information in an organism is called its genome. The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims ...