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September 20, 2012
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by Emily Stehr
A federal court of appeals will decide the fate of a California law requiring that police take DNA samples of anyone arrested on suspicion of committing a felony. |
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by Pete Shanks
California's Proposition 37 aims to label GMO foods, and the industry is fighting back hard. |
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by Jessica Cussins
The New Normal showcases a lighthearted vision of surrogacy and gay parenthood that has moving moments, but largely misses the mark. |
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by Jessica Cussins
A recent commentary in Scientific American notes the difficulties of dealing with race in medical research and points to seven helpful guidelines. |
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by Marcy Darnovsky
Health care reformers and drug industry critics will gather to challenge the global tide of disease mongering. |
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by Osagie Obasagie
Harriet Washington considers the anxiety and dilemmas that new prenatal testing may bring. |
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by Jasmeet Sidhu, Slate
The US is one of the few countries that allows preimplantation genetic diagnosis for prenatal sex selection, which could have negative consequences for parents and children alike. |
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The Daily Scan
Direct-to-consumer gene test company 23andMe will allow third-party developers to create applications that piggyback on customers' personal genome data. |
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by John Timmer, ARS Technica
ENCODE's definition of "functional" leads to misleading media coverage of the role of junk DNA. |
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by Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a California law that permits DNA collection from felony arrestees. |
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The New York Times
The New York Times editorializes on California's law requiring police to take DNA samples from people arrested but not yet convicted of felonies: "It is unconstitutional." |
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by Anna Salleh, ABC News
A new study adds to growing concern about the potential perils of direct-to-consumer genetic tests. |
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by Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post
If we are going to use forensics to put people in prison for years, Congress should pass legislation to make forensics far more of a science. |
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by Michael Cook, BioEdge
Scientists may soon be able to create artificial sperm from a skin cell. Proponents extol benefits for sterile men; opponents warn of future obsolescence of males. |
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by Henry Fountain, The New York Times
Swedish doctors replace a man's cancerous windpipe with a new one made from plastic and his own stem cells. |
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by Michael Cook, BioEdge
A Harvard University researcher was recently disciplined by the Department of Health and Human Services for using images from other publications as her own. |
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by Matt Levin, Tico Times
Costa Rica is being sued at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for prohibiting in vitro fertilization. |
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by Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post
Problems abound with DNA forensics and have led to numerous wrongful convictions, but so far, scientific recommendations have been ignored by Congress. What is the path forward? |
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