Book of Life
2001
This is a Wellcome Trust news release video about the work being
carried out for Human Genome Project (HUGO) at the Sanger Centre,
Cambridge. Scientists there express their hopes of how medical
science may benefit from this work. Spinal muscular atrophy,
Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, heart disease and cancer are among
the diseases targeted by HUGO. Other issues include the importance
of the free release of data and concern about creating a genetic
underclass if a price is put on the benefits which may emerge.
There is film of the Sanger Centre and of DNA sequencing.