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<title>BUniverse: Videos tagged genomics </title>
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<title>Team Future</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:15:33 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As biologists continue the decades-long race to map the genomes of  living things, a dynamic group of BU engineers is asking the kind of questions that engineers canâ€™t help but ask: what if we built a different genome? Known as synthetic biologists, they believe that with some skillful genomic tweaks, living organisms, such as enzymes, cells, and microbes, can be put to work doing things that are too dangerous or not even possible for higher life forms like ourselves.

View the story on Bostonia: http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/campaign12/synbio/]]></description>
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<title>Health Communications in :60</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:26:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a grad student researching her master's thesis at a Toronto clinic in the early 1990s, Catharine Wang remembers watching women being tested for the newly cloned BRCA-1 gene, a risk indicator for breast cancer. At the time, the genetic science was cutting edge and she saw patient upon patient unable to grasp the slew of radical information being thrown at themâ€”about risks and probabilities. Some of them simply tuned out.

Today, the genetics-testing market is booming, with private companies are offering DNA tests for individuals at affordable prices. But it's not one-size-fits-all, Wang cautions. And context is critical. Multiple factors, such as lifestyle and environment, enter into the risk equation, not just hereditary probabilities, which more often than not land in a gray area. Wang's ongoing research, funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is examining methods to effectively communicate genetic and environmental risk information for public health promotion and disease prevention.

"The rapid pace at which we're understanding the genetic causes of human diseases is mind-boggling," she says. "It's almost like information overload. If we can empower patients to be better communicators, they can take control over their health." 

Read the story on the Annual Report:
http://www.bu.edu/ar]]></description>
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<title>Crossing the Watershed: Biology and Other Worlds in the Post-Genomic Era by Charles DeLisi</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:38:36 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Charles DeLisi, BU's Arthur G. B. Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering and senior associate provost for bioscience, provides an introduction to genomics and explores the impact of this emergent science on infectious diseases, notably HIV/AIDS.

Hosted by Boston University on October 20, 2003.]]></description>
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