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Cracking your genetic code /
a Nova production; written, produced, and directed by Sarah Holt.
[Arlington, Virginia] :
PBS Distribution,
[2012]
1 videodisc (60 min.) :
sound, color ;
4 3/4 in.
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You and your genome -- Calculating your risk -- The burden of knowing -- Cancer genetics -- Genetic privacy.
Editor, Sarah Holt ; music, Christopher Rife.
Jamie Effros, narrator.
Originally broadcast by PBS in 2012.
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.
Rating: TVPG.
DVD, NTSC ; widescreen; stereo.; region 1.
20241114.
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Genetic disorders
Diagnosis.
Human chromosome abnormalities
Diagnosis.
Genetic code.
Genetic code.
Moral and ethical aspects.
DNA.
Genealogy.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Holt, Sarah,
1956-
Effros, Jamie.
Rife, Christopher.
Holt Productions.
WGBH (Television station : Boston), Mass.)
PBS Distribution (Firm).
Nova (Television program.)
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