Fetal gene screening

"Regulators, doctors and patients need to prepare for the ethical, legal and practical effects of sequencing fetal genomes from mothers' blood." Good topic of ANTH204 discussion...

Genetic cliques

New controversial PNAS paper suggests friends are more likely to share variants of certain genes (eg DRD2)

Genomes for foodies

"Drafts of cacao and strawberry sequences unveiled."

Ozzy's genes

This would have been a good dissertation topic . . .

Gene patents ...perhaps no more

This will be a good debate topic for ANTH204

"Friday the U.S. Department of Justice issued a brief saying that the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 should never have been patented."

Genomes Unzipped

Public access to personal genomics data from the company 23andMe.

This is a good topic for the 'awesome or not awesome?' ANTH204 debate...