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15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is fostering an appreciation for what our DNA means for our health, identities and culture.
… signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (or GINA for short). This law is now enforced by … about the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Many universities invite members of the public to join … Consent, Privacy, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), Genetic Discrimination, Genomics And Race …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green features the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center.
… Director Francis Collins testified in hearings about the 21st Century Cures Act, which were held to celebrate the one-year …
Policy Issues
There are laws and policies that serve to protect the privacy of individuals' genomic information.
… and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) aim to balance efforts to promote scientific … Congress passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) to restrict the access of issuers of health … of the investigator and their institution. In 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act amended the Public Health Service Act …
News Release
The Undiagnosed Diseases Network has opened an online patient application portal called the UDN Gateway.
… said Rachel Ramoni, D.M.D., Ph.D. "Our goal is to match 21st century medicine with 21st century technology by creating a comprehensive and …
Event
We invite scholars to submit ideas to be one of six to seven speakers at our symposium, “Irreducible Subjects: Disability and Genomics in the Past, Present, and Future”, with an additional opportunity to join a collected set of papers on the same theme.
… links to the global eugenics’ movement in the early 20th century and its continuing influence on our lives in the 21st-century. Other scholars have discussed proslavery ideology … bodies, especially in nineteenth- and twentieth-century science and medicine; dialogues between disability …
Genomics and Medicine
Starting in 2019, the American Journal of Human Genetics has published an annual feature identifying ten key advances in applying genomic information to clinical care that were reported in the previous 12 months of published literature. The Genomic Medicine Working Group has authored these reviews, based on its broader effort to identify notable accomplishments in genomic medicine on a monthly basis. From this larger set of published accomplishments, the working group has continued to select ten papers annually to be highlighted as the most significant.
… Health Predicting Type 1 Diabetes among At-Risk Children 21st Century Technologies for 21st Century Babies Is Anything Truly Monogenic? Read the …
About Genomics
The History of Genomics Program collects and organizes historic materials related to the field of genomics and NHGRI as an organization.
… important undertakings in biomedical research of the past century. The program produces and maintains a large oral … of the most influential genomic scientists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The program also fosters and develops … the History of Genomics April 29 – 30, 2015 A Quarter Century after the Human Genome Project's Launch: Lessons …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the recent launch of the NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award.
… to Accelerate Discoveries in the Cloud Testimony on 21st Century Cures Implementation: Updates from FDA and NIH Genome: …
News Release
John Ohab, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and science communicator, has been named chief NHGRI's Communications and Public Liaison Branch.
… needed to tell the evolving story of genomics in the 21st century," said DPCE Director Laura Lyman Rodriguez, Ph.D. …
Outreach
Five pieces from the Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code exhibition are now on display at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD.
… Videos: Smithsonian Genome Exhibit Unlocks 21st Century Science of Life UNC Professor Helps Design New …