July 21, 2000
The Next Step: Devising an Ethical Blueprint for New Genetic Knowledge
The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics have now released the first draft of the human genome. The new genetic knowledge clearly will produce many benefits, but hidden dangers exist as well.
One significant benefit is that biologists are now able, at least in principle, to study at one time how all of the genes interact, instead of looking at only one gene or a small group of genes. But while that remarkable expansion of experimental horizons opens up an
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