English professor to study the use genetics in media

Prof. Jay Clayton, chairman of the English department at Vanderbilt University, has received a $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how genetics is portrayed in literature, film and the news media. In about 18 months, Clayton and a group of scholars will publish a volume of essays intended to set the tone for future scholarly research in the field. Among the sources of genetic related movies we find Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and Clayton states that this movie is a serious mediation on human cloning. Read the full article at KnoxNews.com.

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