A new experiment at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, which was to analyze the genomes of new students into legal trouble. Academics who came up with the idea, including UC Berkeley geneticist Jasper Rine, saying they wanted to create an educational experience that would illustrate the risks and benefits of personal genome analysis. But health officials of the state told the university this week that the sequencing plan and analyze the DNA of individual volunteers would be a form of non-approved medical practice, according to the reports of San Jose Mercury News . (GenomeWeb and Nature has good coverage on the backstory and why scientists are interested.)
Rine and dean of the University of Berkeley biological sciences Mark Schlissel, disagrees with the Ministry of Health. They argued at a state hearing meeting Tuesday that the restrictive rules on medical practice should not apply to research. But Rine said yesterday that although the University will collect and analyze DNA as expected, it will not disclose individual results to students.
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