Researchers analysed thousands of laboratory-made plasmids and discovered that nearly half of them had defects, raising questions of experimental reproducibility.
DNA Forensics
ARTICLES:
GeneWatch Magazine Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Council for Responsible Genetics, 2011
DNA and Law Enforcement
Karen Maschke, The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book
2010
High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics
by Osagie K. Obasogie, The New York Times
July 24th, 2013
All That Glitters Isn’t Gold
by Osagie K. Obasogie and Troy Duster, The Hastings Center Report
October 12th, 2011
The Dangers of Growing DNA Databases
by Osagie K. Obasogie, Los Angeles Times
April 9th, 2010
About That Creepy Biometric Database, FBI, We'd Like to Know a Bit More
by J.D. Tuccille, Reason
June 26th, 2014
Update on Controversial Police DNA Collection in the States
by Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times
April 3rd, 2014
BOOKS:
| Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime. The public is largely unaware of these changes and the advances that biotechnology and forensic DNA science have made possible. Yet many citizens are beginning to realize that the unfettered collection of DNA profiles might compromise our basic freedoms and rights. |
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