Four major themes emerged in relation to the role of genetics in primary care and the related educational needs: lack of basic knowledge, need for education on family history taking and the potential clinical consequences, ethical dilemmas and psychosocial effects related to genetics and insight into the organisation of regional genetics services and the referral system.
Bruce Whitelaw, professor of animal biotechnology at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, said: "This project, by increasing our understanding of how the early human embryo develops and grows, will add to the basic scientific knowledge needed for devising strategies to assist infertile couples and reduce the anguish of miscarriage.
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According to Bruce Whitelaw, a professor of animal biotechnology at Edinburgh University's Roslin Institute on Scotland, "This project, by increasing our understanding of how the early human embryo develops and grows, will add to the basic scientific knowledge needed for devising strategies to assist infertile couples and reduce the anguish of miscarriage".
Furthermore, their influence on the retention of basic science knowledge needs to be further explored.
Students did however mention that some basic knowledge is needed to enable effective discussions and that some of these basic facts may be more efficiently covered in lectures.
"Once we have those mice, we can get the basic knowledge we need in order to tweak mammals to make them live longer.
The legendary biologist George B. Schaller explained it best: only through observing and recording fundamental data about a subject, he wrote, can we gain the basic knowledge we need to approach complicated problems like, for instance, conservation.
