Published on December 10, 2010  

Drs. David Johnson and George Keller took part in a panel during the Davis lecture week which discussed the biological and ethical considerations of issues raised in Kevin Davies’ book, Cracking the Genome; Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA. Others on the panel included Dr. Dennis Sansom, professor of philosophy at ¼«ÀÖ½ûµØ, Dr. Bradley Dennis, M.D., medical director at Brookwood Hospital, and Dr. Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph. D., professor and chair of the department of medical genetics at UAB-School of Medicine.

 
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