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| UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA
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| from the gullibility-gene dept.
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| posted by StoneLion on Wednesday May 19, @11:39 (Education)
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/19/1311211/UC-Berkeley-Asking-Incoming-Students-Fo|
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peterofoz writes "The students will be asked to voluntarily [0]submit a
DNA sample. The cotton swabs will come with two bar code labels. One
label will be put on the DNA sample and the other is kept for the
students' own records. The confidential process is being overseen by
Jasper Rine, a campus professor of Genetics and Development Biology, who
says the test results will help students make decisions about their diet
and lifestyle." No word in the story on just what "confidential" means —
who will have access to the results, how long they'll be kept, or what
else they might someday be used for. Will the notoriously liberal
Berkeley campus see this as a service or an invasion of privacy?
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/19/1311211
Links:
0. http://www.ktvu.com/news/23592937/detail.html
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