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The CSI Effect: How TV shapes DNA forensics in the courtroom

By Jonathan Chernoguz | 07.18.2017
Biopolitical Times
Swab, sequence, repeat.This is how DNA forensics has been popularized on television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In each episode, a skilled team of forensic investigators solves criminal cases by scouring crime scenes, collecting DNA, and matching samples they find with those available in their extensive databases...
Arts & Culture

Gene Editing Controversy Reminds Us Just How Much Money Influences Science

By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 07.06.2017

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Recently, a kerfuffle in the world of CRISPR illustrated just how easily money—and our perception of it—can impact science...
Bioethics

"Woolly" is a Relentlessly Optimistic Book about De-Extinction

By Pete Shanks | 07.18.2017
Biopolitical Times

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures, by Ben Mezrich;...

Arts & Culture

Why You Should Think Twice About Those DNA-By-Mail Results

By Barbara J. King, NPR | 07.06.2017

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In a new book, University of North Carolina, Charlotte anthropologist Jonathan Markssays that racism in science is alive and...

Racial Justice

Biopolitical Times

The CSI Effect: How TV shapes DNA forensics in the courtroom

By Jonathan Chernoguz | 07.18.2017

Swab, sequence, repeat.This is how DNA forensics has been popularized on television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In...

Arts & Culture

"Woolly" is a Relentlessly Optimistic Book about De-Extinction

By Pete Shanks | 07.18.2017

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures, by Ben Mezrich;...

Arts & Culture

A Crack in Creation: A Review of Jennifer Doudna’s Memoir on CRISPR

By Jessica Cussins | 07.06.2017

CRISPR gene-editing star Jennifer Doudna’s new memoir has the enviable title, A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable...

Arts & Culture

News

Did a U.S. Surgeon General come up with the idea of the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

By William Bender, Philly News | 07.20.2017

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Hundreds of black men were tricked into volunteering as human guinea pigs. For 40 years, no one stepped in to stop it. That was the point of the experiment.

U.S. government doctors told Alabama sharecroppers suffering from syphilis that they had...

Bioethics

The uncertain future of genetic testing

By Carrie Arnold, Mosaic Science | 07.18.2017

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Bringing genetics into medicine leads to more accuracy, better diagnosis and personalised treatment – but not for all. Carrie Arnold meets families for whom gene testing has led only to unanswered questions.

AnneMarie Ciccarella, a fast-talking 57-year-old brunette with a more...

Genomics

Scientists Push Back Against Booming Genetic Pseudoscience Market

By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 07.14.2017

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The premise behind Yes or No Genomics is simple: Genetic disease is typically caused by a variation in at least one of the many thousands of genes in the human genome, so knowing whether your DNA code contains variants could...

Biopolitics

Who needs film when you can store a movie in bacteria DNA?

By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times | 07.13.2017

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You might call it the smallest movie ever made.

This week, a team of scientists report that they have successfully embedded a short film into the DNA of living bacteria cells.

The mini-movie, really a GIF, is a five-frame animation...

Synthetic Biology

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