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 Scott Solomon, The MIT Press Reader | 02.12.2026
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Chris Mason is a man in a hurry.
“Sometimes walking from the subway to the lab takes too long, so I’ll start running,” he told me over breakfast at a bistro near his home in Brooklyn on a crisp...
By Katrina Miller, The New York TImes | 02.05.2026
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Joseph Yracheta: The Native Biodata Consortium is the first nonprofit data and sample repository within the geographic bounds and legal jurisdiction of an American Indian nation, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Eagle Butte, S.D.
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”...
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