Genetics Made Easy
Genetics Made Easy www.geneticsmadeeasy.com, is a non-profit informative web on human genetics that has been written with the aim of bringing the scientific community closer to the general population. The web is an excellent complement to genetic counseling and a very useful teaching tool to clinicians and other healthcare professionals, in order to complement medical personal consultations as you will see through the index web, regardless of their area of expertise, as genetically inherited disorders are known across all medical specialties. Supplemented by static pictures and flash animation, at this moment is currently available on the Net in Spanish, English and Catalan and during this year in Chinese.
The web contains the information that any couple may need to know before embarking in parenthood, or if they have already children with some type of malformation or hereditary disorder.
Additionally, and in light of the great advances (cloning, regenerative medicine, etc),a needs arises for the general population of any age to be well informed, starting ideally at school age. It is through early educational that each individual will be able to make his or her own choice, under his or her own criteria, helping him or her make the right informed decision.
The index web is:
* Introduction, * The origin of life, * Cell specialization, * Chromosomes, * How do we acquire our inheritance, * What is heredity, * Types of inheritance, * Why do disorders develop, * What happens when our recipes combine with our partner´s recipes?
*And how can we use this vast knowledge and benefit from it, * Origin of hereditary disorders, * Prenatal diagnosis techniques, *Gene Therapy, * Cloning, and stem cells, *Questions, * Links of interest, * Further reading, * Foreword.
A FORUM, is included.