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Guest column: Reunion disunion –  A case for skipping class reunions 

It’s spring, when the thoughts of the young and not-so-young  turn to — school reunions. In a recent return to my native New York City, my college friend Donna greeted me with, “I’m co-chairing our 50th  Douglass College (of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) reunion. I laughed when my co-chair said she’d call […]

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The Conversation: How a South African community’s request for its genetic data raises questions about ethical and equitable research

THE CONVERSATION — Scientists believe Africa is where modern humans first emerged. For the past decade, our team of genetic researchers from the Henn Lab have worked among the Khoe-San and self-identified “Coloured” communities in South Africa, which comprise multiple ethnic groups in the region, requesting DNA and generating genetic data to help unravel the history and prehistory of […]