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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...
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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...

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An image of an empty courtroom in the United States.

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
The cover of the book "Woolly" featuring the outline of a blue woolly mammoth walking on hills with a city skyline behind it.

"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 photo of Jennifer Doudna on the UC Berkeley campus.

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...

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First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.

By Steve Connor, MIT Technology Review | 07.26.2017

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Researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently improve the DNA of human embryos.

The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, Technology Review...

Human Genetic Modification

America's Long, Shameful History of Sterilizing Prisoners

By Zoë Beery, The Outline | 07.25.2017

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Coerced sterilizations are a shade away from eugenics.

Last Thursday, Tennessee judge Sam Benningfield was suddenly inundated with accusations of being a eugenicist. Since May, he’s been offering misdemeanor defendants — most of whom, in opioid-plagued White County, are drug...

Eugenics

A DNA App Store Is Here, but Proceed with Caution

By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 07.24.2017

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Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it.

A Silicon Valley startup called Helix is betting on the notion that not only do people want to learn more...

Biotech & Pharma

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

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