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Opinion: Tributes to Craig Venter and the genomics race are missing something important

Two weeks ago, one of the most important scientists of the 20th century died. Craig Venter was a legend in genomics — a self-styled maverick who made a career of challenging institutional science and its methods and assumptions.

His most famous challenge to the scientific status quo came in the late 1990s, when his private company Celera announced it would beat the publicly funded Human Genome Project in the race to generate the first sequence of the human genome. It was one of the top science stories of the 20th century.

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STAT+: Top U.S. officials pressured Germany to pay more for prescription drugs

WASHINGTON — Over a recent breakfast, U.S. officials had a message for the German ambassador: pay more for pharmaceuticals.

The meeting, between U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, chief health department adviser Chris Klomp, and German Ambassador Jens Hanefeld, was part of a larger push from the Trump administration to get other countries to pay more for medications as the U.S. pays less, according to a person familiar with the meeting.

The U.S. officials discussed the possible use of tariffs under Section 301 — which grants the government authority to combat trade practices considered “unfair.” The move would be similar to the tactic of threatening new tariffs to get other countries to pay more for drugs. The ambassador agreed to review the matter with officials in Germany, but no deal was made, the person said. 

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DOJ accuses Yale and UCLA medical schools of discriminating against white and Asian applicants

The Justice Department sent a letter to Yale School of Medicine on Thursday, alleging it was illegally discriminating against applicants who are not Black or Hispanic, following a similar missive sent last week to the University of California, Los Angeles medical school.

A 2023 Supreme Court ruling prohibited the use of affirmative action in admission decisions, but the Trump administration accused the medical schools of continuing discriminatory practices despite that decision, citing differences in average test scores and GPAs between students of different racial groups over the past three admissions cycles. 

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