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Human Genome Project
Name: Francis Collins (NIH); Craig Venter (Celera Genomics)
Date: 1990 - 2003
Definition: Map all of the genes in the human genome
Buzzanca v Buzzanca
Names: John and Luanne Buzzanca
Date: 1998
Definition: Court case that went up to CA Court of Appeals
deCODE Genetics
Name: Kari Stefansson
Date: Founded in 1996
Definition: Company that set of Icelandic Health Database (IHD)
Dolly
Name: Keith Cambpell and Ian Wilmut of Roslin Institute
Date: Born in 1996
Definition: First mammal cloned via SCNT
SNP
Definition: Single nucleotide polymorphism, a variance in a ingle base pair in a DNA sequence
Importance: Underlines differences in susceptibility to diseases such as sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis
Stratified Reproduction
Name: Term coined by Shellee Colen
Date: Term coined in 1986
Definition: Disparities increase as privileged groups have access to new technologies and others do not.
Louise Brown
Name: Parents John and Lesley Brown
Date: Born in 1978
Definition: First baby born via IVF
CRISPR
Name: Feng Zhang, George Church, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier
Date: Used for gene editing in 2013 by Zheng
Definition: Stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats; refers to a family. of DNA sequences in bacteria and archaeological; using CRISPR sequences can perform gene editting
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
Name: Gianpiero Palermo
Date: First performed in 1987
Definition: IVF procedure in which a single sperm cell is injected directly into the cytoplasm of an egg
Uniform Parentage Act
Name: Uniform Law Commission, a non-profit association that aims to provide US states with legislation
Date: Promulgated in 1973, revised in 2002
Definition: Regards which persons may bring a paternity suit before the court
Importance: 2002 revision allows any interested party to file paternity complaint on behalf of the child
