Investigative Report: "Bring Your Genes to Cal"

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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."

Genomics

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Technologies

J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 04.30.2026

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J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79.

His death was announced by...

Synthetic Biology

Natural Election

By Jonathan Basile, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 04.29.2026

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WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the response of a Scottish soldier to one of his public lectures: “Sir, what ye’re telling us is nothing but Scientific...

Society

Eugenics and the Genetics Society

By Alex Aylward, Daniel J. Fairbanks, Maria Kiladi, and Gregory Radick , Heredity | 04.20.2026

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Genetics and eugenics co-evolved at the beginning of the twentieth century and remained associated through the 1940s and beyond. Early geneticists were far from unanimous in their views on eugenics; some avidly supported the movement, whereas others openly opposed it...

U.S. Federal

GM plants differ from non-GM parents in unintended ways – and that goes for GM gene-edited plants too

By Staff, GMWatch | 03.28.2026

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Following a recent podcast interview we were asked whether there is any solid scientific research looking at how gene expression or molecular composition in genetically modified (GM) plants differs from conventionally bred plants. As this is an interesting and important...

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Investigative Report: "Bring Your Genes to Cal"

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