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Diabetes, Biotechnology and Native Americans
Possible sessions for conference:
  1. Producing human insulin in bacteria (workshop)
  2. Human stem cells and the prospects for a cure for diabetes through genetic engineering.
  3. Case study of the ethics of low nutrition government commodities
  4. The culture of the buffalo...are the genetics of the buffalo native?
  5. Chronic Wasting Disease in deer.
  6. Human medical genomics...what are the genetic difference is populations that affect diabetes. Genetics counseling.
  7. The economic impact of diabetes on the life of tribal nations.
  8. The career of the nutritionist in public health.
  9. Receiver workshop on the effectiveness of existing anti-diabetes programs.
This is a proposed topic for a conference, developed through the resources of the 9 institutions on the SEE Biotech grant, which would be held in the spring of 2004, at an as yet to be determined location, most likely, the LCO tribal facilities near Hayward, WI. In order to help develop this idea, please fill out the attached opinion form.
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