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."

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They advised federal health agencies on the ethics and impact of scientific research. They’re no longer wanted

By Megan Molteni and Anil Oza, STAT | 10.07.2025

Aggregated News

For two years, a panel of scientific experts, clinicians, and patient advocates had been hammering out ways to increase community engagement in National Institutes of Health-funded science. When they presented their road map to the NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya last...

Genomics

Experimental Human Cell Division Does Not a Baby Make

By Pete Shanks | 10.22.2025

Biopolitical Times

^{Paula Amato & Shoukhrat Mitalipov

[OHSU News/Christine Torres Hicks]}

On September 30th, a team of 21 scientists from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) published a significant paper in Nature Communications, with a scientifically accurate but, to many, somewhat abstruse headline:

Induction of experimental cell division to generate cells with reduced chromosome ploidy

The lead authors were Shoukhrat Mitalipov, recently described here as “a push-the-envelope biologist,” and his long-term colleague Paula Amato. (Recall that in July the pair had co-published with...

Assisted Reproduction

He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?

By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 10.17.2025

Aggregated News

Before dawn on a March morning, Doug Whitney walked into a medical center 2,000 miles from home, about to transform from a mild-mannered, bespectacled retiree into a superhuman research subject.

First, a doctor inserted a needle into his back to...

Genomics

The race to create the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

By Julia Black, MIT Technology Review | 10.16.2025

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Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges just five days or so after a fateful encounter between egg and sperm. This bundle of cells, about the size of...

Genetic Selection

Investigative Report: "Bring Your Genes to Cal"

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