Integrating genetics into diabetes care: a new role for DSNs.
Introduction The importance of molecular genetic testing in diagnosing genetic subtypes of diabetes is well recognised as it can guide optimal treatment, help genetic counselling and explain the co-inheritance of apparently unrelated features (Stride, 2002). Many diabetes professionals do not recognise maturity onset diabetes of the young...

Families and the Genetic Revolution: Implications for Primary Healthcare, Education, and Research.
This article provides an overview of the Human Genome Project (HGP) and its outcomes in science, health, and healthcare practices and education for health professionals. An analysis of findings from the HGP for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHCM) and breast cancer are used as a framework for examining unique issues...

Nanogen Accelerates NanoChip(TM) Molecular Biology Workstation Installations With Ten Additional Agreements.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN), producer of the only commercially available electronic microarray, announced today the placement of ten additional NanoChip(TM) Molecular Biology Workstations. The ten placements include one sale, eight development site agreements and one expanded research collaboration. Each customer will...

NANOGEN SIGNS 10 NONOCHIP WORKSTATION AGREEMENTS.
Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN), San Diego, producer of the only commercially available electronic microarray, has announced the placement of ten additional NanoChip(TM) Molecular Biology Workstations. The ten placements include one sale, eight development site agreements and one expanded research collaboration. Each customer will focus on expanding the clinical research...

Panel Urges Rolling Back Ban on Embryo Study.
A presidential advisory commission has recommended that federal dollars be available not only for conducting experiments on human embryonic stem cells, but also for harvesting the cells from embryos that would otherwise be discarded by infertility patients. The recommendations from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), if...

Diagnóstico genético preimplantación: una alternativa hacia el futuro en el presente.
Resumen El diagnóstico genético preimplantación (DGP) es una técnica novedosa que se promueve como una alternativa al diagnóstico prenatal y a la terminación voluntaria del embarazo para parejas con riesgo elevado de transmisión de enfermedades genéticas a su descendencia. Tras la aplicación de técnicas de reproducción asistida...

The ethics weave in human genomics, embryonic stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning: promoting and protecting society's interests.
This essay discusses a value-based connection between the emerging technologies of human genomics, embryonic stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning. The analysis presents what is described as an "ethics weave" to highlight the value-based connection between today's major forms of bioengineering. The argument is that human life constitutes the...

Designing Our Descendants.
In one of the classic early discussions about the possible uses of advancing genetic knowledge to control and reshape human life, Paul Ramsey, more than thirty years ago, wrote the following: I ... raise the question whether a scientist has not an entirely "frivolous conscience" who, faced...

Hedging their bets.
Predictive medicine--monitoring and even treating potential illness in people who are asymptomatic--holds the promise of transforming health care. Armed with foreknowledge of individuals' particular susceptibilities, physicians will be able not only to intervene before disease takes its toll but also to tailor the advice they give patients about diet...

Making 'perfect' babies.
Our Post-Human Future Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution Francis Fukuyama Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25, 256 pp. Francis Fukuyama first made a name for himself with The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which he argued that, with the collapse of the USSR, history...