Museum of Science and Industry

Outstanding Resources

Books

Introducing Genetics
Steve Jones and Borin Van Loon, Totem Books, 2005

Genetics for Dummies
Tara R. Robinson, For Dummies Books, 2005

A Short Guide to the Human Genome
Stewart Scherer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Matt Ridley, Harper Collins, 1999

Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics
Philip Reilly, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2002

The Genes We Share With Yeast, Flies, Worms, and Mice: New Clues to Human Health and Disease
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2003

Future Perfect: Confront Decisions About Genetics
Lori Andrews, Colubia University Press, 2001

Genetic Testing: Care, Consent, and Liability
Neil Sharpe and Ronald Carter, John Wiley & Sons, 2006

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins, Oxford UP, 2006

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James Watson, New American Library, 1968

After Dolly: Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning
Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield, Norton, 2006

Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning
Martha Nussbaum and Cass Sunstein (Eds.) Norton, 1998

Websites

www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/genetics/

www.genome.gov

www.dnalc.org/home.html

learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/

www.actionbioscience.org

www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/

www.cdc.gov/genomics/links/ethical.htm

www.geneticalliance.org

www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/human_genome/elsi/forensics.shtml

Videos

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html (Epigenetics)

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3210/02.html (RNAi)

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0302/01.html (Personal DNA Testing)

For Educators

www.biology.arizona.edu

www.kumc.edu/gec/

For Kids Only!

genetics.gsk.com/kids/index_kids.htm