Researchers analysed thousands of laboratory-made plasmids and discovered that nearly half of them had defects, raising questions of experimental reproducibility.
Surging DNA Databases
This comes a few short days after lawmakers in South Carolina began considering a bill to create the nation’s most aggressive DNA collection program, which goes beyond California’s Proposition 69 and proposes taking genetic samples from ANYONE arrested in ANY crime. (Jaywalkers, beware!) These coordinated efforts by local, state, and federal governments to catalogue the public’s genetic make-up for law enforcement purposes is certainly troubling; anyone who values their civil rights and civil liberties should take note.