Sankar and Cho on Race and Genes

"Too often, the mere availability of data and technology, rather than ethical considerations of social needs, drives its use in unintended ways," says Mildred K. Cho of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, writing in a special issue of the journal Nature Genetics with Pamela Sankar of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics.

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Male Homosexuality Described as Heritable...Again

An article in the Royal Society's Biological Sciences Journal makes the argument that a "gay trait" is passed in the context of higher fertility. It is a peculiar argument indeed.

Washington Post: DNA Damage from Smoking

Yet another story framed in terms of how behaviors can cause damage to the genetic makeup of cells was released by the AP, although only the WPost picked this one up.