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Call for proposals! Pilot Funding Opportunity : Deadline July 1, 2008

GINA has passed the Senate. Check out this position paper on GINA created by an undergraduate class at Penn for Congressman Joseph Sestak.

It's All In the Genes (Or Is It?): Barbara Bernhardt talks about how medicine can guide individuals to an understanding of their own genomes.

Unraveling Our Own Code: Nancy Spinner speaks with Science Progress about new techniques at her cytogenetics laboratory.

The University of Pennsylvania Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies (Penn CIGHT) is one of six national Centers of Excellence for research on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of genetics and the human genome. The goal of the Penn CIGHT is to develop tools that will help consumers, professionals, policy makers and insurers understand and cope with the scope of certainty and uncertainty that the application of genetic technologies engender. The work of the center is conducted by teams of experts representing a broad range of disciplines, such as medicine, bioethics, law, behavioral and social sciences, public policy, economics, and research in genetics, genomics, and health services.