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Sexual assault evidence in California: a slow moving story
Image by BonnieJ via iStockCalifornia has only recently begun to take a legislative approach to dealing with its backlog of rape kits
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Gabriel Petek is Legislature’s new nonpartisan fiscal guru
Gabriel Petek, the new head of the Office of the Legislative Analyst, or LAO. (Photo: Courtesy of Gabriel Petek)A Wall Street public finance expert who says analyzing California’s fiscal condition was the “defining passion” of his career is the state’s new legislative analyst. He is Gabriel Petek, 47, who until recently was Standard and Poor’s chief credit analyst covering California from an office in San Francisco.
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California stem cell agency eyes human gene editing
A digital illustration of DNA structure. (Image by Matha Graphics, via Shutterstock)The $3 billion California stem cell agency next Thursday will convene a day-long examination of human gene editing, a field that could be a “gold mine for biotechnology” and perhaps alter the human race permanently. “Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up.” is the way Wired magazine put it in a headline on a lengthy overview article last July.