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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 1998;279:185-187.

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TRAVELERS passing through Terminal 2 in England's Manchester Airport during the past year or so have been greeted with an unusual facility that stands apart from the familiar duty-free shops and airport retail outlets that typically sell newspapers, novels, and souvenirs.

The Gene Shop, a joint venture between the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital's (RMCH) department of clinical genetics, is intended to provide people with an opportunity to shop around for free information about genetics and how genes and genetic diseases can affect their everyday lives.

The Gene Shop, which is located between the Body Shop and the Prayer Room in a terminal at England's Manchester Airport, uses interactive touch-screen computer programs and displays about inherited diseases to provide the traveling public an opportunity to learn more about genetics and genetic diseases. (Photo credit: The . . . [Full Text of this Article]