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Cracking your genetic code, a Nova production by Holt Productions, LLC for WGBH ; written, produced, and directed by Sarah Holt

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Cracking your genetic code, a Nova production by Holt Productions, LLC for WGBH ; written, produced, and directed by Sarah Holt

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: TVPG

Main title

Cracking your genetic code

Oclc number

789684524

resource.otherEventInformation

Originally broadcast by PBS in 2012

Responsibility statement

a Nova production by Holt Productions, LLC for WGBH ; written, produced, and directed by Sarah Holt

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Summary

What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA, all six billion chemical letters of it, read, stored and available for analysis? Reveals that we stand on the verge of such a revolution. Meet a cancer patient who appears to have cheated death and a cystic fibrosis sufferer breathing easily because scientists have been able to pinpoint and neutralize the genetic abnormalities underlying their conditions

Table Of Contents

You and your genome -- Calculating your risk -- The burden of knowing -- Cancer genetics -- Genetic privacy

Technique

live action

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