Internet links - Academic and Government

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• Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing
  
• The AHRB Research Cen
  tre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
  
• Association of Medical Research Charities
  
• British Society for Human Genetics
  
• Centre for Education Genetics
  
• Capability - Capacity building for the transfer of genetic knowledge into practice and prevention, funded by the European Union for 3 years from 2007)
  
• Diabetesgenes.org an information resource for professionals and patients on the genetic types of diabetes.
  
• Directorate General III-E 3 at the European Commission pharmaceutical and cosmetic department of the EU. Includes "Rules governing medicinal products in the EU"
  
• Directory of UK Academic Sites
  
• Directory of UK Research Sites
  
• Directory of UK Universities
  
• European Genetic Alliances' Network
  
• European Commission study of socio-economic research in the life sciences
  
• European Society of Human Genetics
  
• Eurostemcell - European Consortium for stem cell research
  
• Euregene - European Renal Genome Project
  
• Euregene - a kidney tutorial - learn how the kidney works.
  
• Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center
  
• GenePool - the specialist library for clinical genetics. This site is aimed primarily at health professionals but is open to anyone from specialists to patients.
  
• Genetics, Society and Policy - an open access journal provides an outlet for interdisciplinary research on the social, ethical and legal aspects of genomics
  
• Gene Therapy Advisory Committee
  
• Health EU - Public Health Thematic Portal. Official public health portal of the European Union
  
• Human Genetics Advisory Commission
  
• Human Genetics Commission
  
• Human Genome Project Education Resources
  
• Medline at Healthworks - searchable database of published scientific and medical literature. You can search by keyword (e.g. drug name), author, journal and date.
  
• National Genetics Reference Laboratory
  
• National Human Genome Research Institute - Genetic Education Link Resources
  
• National Office for Public Health Genomics (HuGENet) - Human Genome Epidemiology Network
  
• National Screening Committee - supporting the genetic service network in the UK.
  
• National Electronic Library For Health - Working with NHS Libraries to develop a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public.
  
• National Metabolic Biochemistry Network (Biomedical Genetics)
  contains a list of specialist metabolic tests which are provided in the UK.
  
• Net Doctor - Independant health website
  
• Neuromuscular Network - Treat NMD - A European initatives to ecelerate treatments for neuromuscular disorders.
  
• NHS Direct
  
• NHS Gateway - search accross NHS websites throughout the UK.
  
• Office of Rare Diseases section of the US National Institue of Health. Includes information on rare diseases, patient support group, research and clinical trials, genetics information, news and other information
  
• Royal College of Physicians of London
  
• SAFE - The special Non-invasive Advances in Fetal and Neonatal Evaluation Network
  
• Scottish Stem Cell Network - Brings together scientists, clinicians, business and society to enable advances in stem cell biology
  
• The Department of Health
  
• The Medical Research Council (MRC)
  
• The Roslin Institute - The leading centre for biotechnology.
  
• The Sanger Centre
  
• The Wellcome Trust
  
• The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
  
• UK Clinical Molecular Genetics Society
  
• UK Genetics Society
  
• UK Genetic Testing Network (UKGTN)
  
• Yahoo! Medical - Pharmaceutical News - includes latest news stories (mainly business and financial)
  
• The Wellcome Trust - The Human Genome Site

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