CalTV's Reena Flores explores the controversy behind this year's On the Same Page Program, hosted by UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science. This year's topic is "Bring Your Genes to Cal."
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 02.10.2026
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Touchy issues involving accusations that California’s $12 billion gene and stem cell research agency is pushing aside “good science” in favor of new priorities and preferences will be aired again in late March at a public meeting in Sacramento.
By Lauren Hammer Breslow and Vanessa Smith, Bill of Health | 01.28.2026
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On Jan. 24, 2026, the New York Timesreported that DNA sequences contributed by children and families to support a federal effort to understand adolescent brain development were later co-opted by other researchers and used to publish “race science”...
A growing body of contemporary research and reporting exposes how old ideas can find new life when repurposed within modern systems of medicine, technology, and public policy. Over the last decade, several trends have converged:
Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% of the time, new research finds.
The study challenges the concept of Mendelian diseases, or diseases and disorders attributed to...
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