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- HUGO Human Genome Meeting 2010, 18th - 21st May 2010, Montpellier, France
- HUGO Symposium on Genomics and Ethics, Law and Society Sequencing of individual Genomes: Impact on Society and Ethics, 1st - 3rd November 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
Soon an individual’s genome can be sequenced at accessible cost. Like the availability of books provided by the printing press, the ease of communications by cell phones, and the access to information by the internet, access to information that is broad, deep, and personally significant changes society, its laws, and its sensibilities. Complete sequence information of individual genomes raises questions about identity, privacy, genetic determinism, genetic sovereignty, and genetic pride. The concept of open source genetic information is a reality that will tax the legal framework just as much as internet freedom challenges legal tenets. Direct to Consumer genomics where a physician opinion is bypassed will be more common. The sequencing of genomes provides the substrate for synthetic biology in which entire organisms can be created de novo through stitching DNA together into entire genomes.
This symposium explores the ethical, societal, and legal issues involving the accessibility of fast, inexpensive, and complete genomic sequencing.
- HUGO Symposium on Genomics and Hereditable Disorders, September/October 2010, Dubai, UAE
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