The brave new world is here: privacy issues and the Human Genome Project: governments and courts must step in to provide protections and regulations for the use of individuals' genetic testing results.

From: Defense Counsel Journal | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Caperna, Lisa M.; Curley, Robert A., Jr. | Copyright information

SCIENTIFIC discoveries and advances in biological understanding during the 20th century paved the path for the Human Genome Project.

"We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes," said James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953. (1) As for Crick's thoughts, he stated, "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity ...

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