Genes and Gene Therapy

• Latest News
• Diabetes Gene Identified (10/25/2004, United Press International)
• Gene May Account for Range of Ills (10/22/2004, Reuters Health)
• Researchers Unlock Key to Parkinson's (10/22/2004, United Press International)
• Bovine Genome Assembled: International Effort Makes Data Freely Available to Scientists Worldwide (10/06/2004, National Human Genome Research Institute)
• More News on Genes and Gene Therapy

• From the National Institutes of Health
• Gene Therapy for Cancer: Questions and Answers (National Cancer Institute)
• Genetics FAQ (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Genetics Home Reference (National Library of Medicine)
• Human Genome Project (National Human Genome Research Institute)

• Overviews
• Gene Therapy (Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project)
• Introduction to Genetics and Genetic Testing (Nemours Foundation)
• JAMA Patient Page: Genetics (American Medical Association)

• Anatomy/Physiology
• Gene-Environment Interaction Fact Sheet (National Center for Environmental Health)

• Clinical Trials
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Gene Therapy (National Institutes of Health)
• FDA Advisory Committee Discusses Steps for Potentially Continuing Certain Gene Therapy Trials That Were Recently Placed on Hold (Food and Drug Administration)

• Specific Conditions
• Functional and Comparative Genomics (Dept. of Energy)
• Genes and Populations (National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Medicine and the New Genetics: Gene Testing, Pharmacogenomics, and Gene Therapy (Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project)
• Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research (American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dept. of Energy) - multi-page document

• Related Issues
• Cloning (Dept. of Energy)
• Genome Sequencing (Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project)
• Pharmacogenomics (American Medical Association)
• Proteomics (American Medical Association)
• SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) (Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project)

• Research
• Bovine Genome Assembled: International Effort Makes Data Freely Available to Scientists Worldwide (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Genes Promoting Nerve, Other Cell Communications May Have Come from Bacteria (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
• Honey Bee Genome Assembled (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Kangaroo Hops in Line for Genome Sequencing (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Newly Identified Tumor Suppressor Cooperates with p53 to Protect Mice against Tumors (National Cancer Institute)
• NHGRI Study May Help Scientists Design Safer Methods for Gene Therapy (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• NIEHS and UNC to Collaborate on Registry of 20,000 Subjects to Relate Gene Variants and Environmental Disease (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
• NIH and FDA Launch New Human Gene Transfer Research Data System (Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health)
• Progress Made in Sequencing of Model Organisms' Genomes (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Research Brief: A Protein to Tie Up Loose Ends (National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
• Researchers Discover Use of Novel Mechanism Preserves Y Chromosome Genes (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Scientists Compare Rat Genome with Human, Mouse (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Scientists Pinpoint Gene Influencing Age-at-Onset of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s (National Institute on Aging)
• Study Finds Direction of Enzymes Affects DNA Repair (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

• Genetics
• Genetics Home Reference: Gene Therapy (National Library of Medicine)

• Dictionaries/Glossaries
• Dictionary of Genetic Terms (Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project)
• Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms (National Human Genome Research Institute) - Requires media player
  Also available in: Spanish

• Directories
• Laboratory Directory-GeneReviews (Children's Health Care System, Seattle)

• Organizations
• GeneTests (Children's Health Care System, Seattle)
• Human Genome Project Information (Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project)
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature

• Newsletters/Print Publications
• Genomics & Health Weekly Update (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Law and Policy
• Genetics Privacy and Legislation (Dept. of Energy)
• Human Gene Therapy and the Role of the Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration)
• Issues in Genetics and Health (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Policy and Legislation Database (National Human Genome Research Institute)

• Children
• Gene Therapy and Your Child (Nemours Foundation)
• What Is a Gene? (Nemours Foundation)
• You and Your Genes: Making It in a Tough Environment (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

• Teenagers
• Basics on Genes and Genetic Disorders (Nemours Foundation)