CGS : Center for Genetics and Society

Public Interest Group Applauds End of UC Berkeley’s Controversial Genetic Testing of Incoming Students Center for Genetics and Society, others previously raised concerns, called for the program’s haltAug 12, 2010 The University says its researchers will now use students’ genetic samples provided for aggregate analysis only, and will not provide results to individual students.

"Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated" Race and Genetics Ten Years After the Human Genome Project by Osagie K. Obasogie - Jun 18, 2010 The Huffington Post Instead of closing the door on the historically misleading notion of race-as-biology, the ten-year-old Human Genome Project has drawn new attention toward biology's role in racial categories.

Public interest group welcomes regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests The Center for Genetics and Society says FDA letters will help protect consumersJun 11, 2010 “Along with other observers, we’ve long said that some of these tests are tantamount to practicing medicine."

UC Berkeley, Don't Send Those Swabs by Jesse Reynolds - Jun 07, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle UC Berkeley plans to send cotton swabs to thousands of freshmen and transfer students, for samples for DNA analysis. This plan is problematic for several reasons.

Public interest group calls for UC Berkeley to suspend controversial gene tests for incoming students May 19, 2010 CGS is calling for the suspension of a project at the University of California, Berkeley in which incoming freshmen will be asked to provide samples of their own DNA for genetic analysis.

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