Does familiarity breed concern? Bench scientists and the Human Genome Mapping Project

摘要

A survey of 100 users of the UK Human Genome Project (HGP) Resource Centre in Cambridge, UK found that many respondents Concerned with mapping and sequencing ge- Netic material felt strongly that attemtps to pat- Ent the results of the HGP would impede the Future development of diagnostics and thera- Peutics, and that current attempts to commer- Cialise the results were premature.