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Genetics Update
It seems that hardly a day goes by when we don't hear about a discovery in the field of genetics, whether it's the isolation of a disease-causing gene or progress made in mapping all the genes in the human body. In this hour of Science Friday, we'll look at some of the latest achievements in genetics research, and talk about what questions still need to be answered.
Guests:
Robert Waterston
James S. McDonnell Professor of Genetics
Head, Department of Genetics
Director, Genome Sequencing Center
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
David Lipman
Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Roger Brent
Associate Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Department of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
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