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23andMe’s $30M Settlement: What It Means for Companies Handling Genetic and Genomic Data

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The recent $30 million settlement between 23andMe and 6.4 million users following a major data breach offers important lessons for businesses dealing with sensitive genetic and genomic information....more

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A 23&ME Update

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Valentine’s Day seemed an odd time to report the subject but CNN posted a five minute story provocatively titled as “I Slept with My Half Sibling.” This recounts the story of a Connecticut social worker who had symptoms of a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #385 – 23andMe Sends Letter to Data Breach Victims that Suing Over Breach is Futile

We previously alerted readers to the fact that the most recent data compromise of 23andMe exposed data related to Ashkenazi Jews and individuals of Chinese descent. It is reported by Ars Technica, citing TechCrunch, that...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Beyond HIPAA: FTC’s Data Protection Authority Results in Settlement with Genetic Testing Company

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A recent enforcement action by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) against 1Health.io—which sells “DNA Health Test Kits” to consumers for health and ancestry insights—serves as a reminder that the FTC is increasingly...more

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Gene therapy development in Europe brings layers of liability risks

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The investments in Advanced Medicinal Products (ATMPs) that use gene therapy, somatic cell therapy, and engineered tissues for preventing, treating, or curing human diseases probably represent the biggest innovation in the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #314 – Got a Genetic Testing Kit for Christmas? Read this Before you Send In That Swab

I have written about genetic testing kits before, but this subject matter is worth repeating. I find that people don’t always understand the consequences when sending a swab to a genetic testing company.  Consumer Reports...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

California’s New Genetic Testing Law Applies to 23andMe – AND Me (or my Company)?

Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 41, the Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”), a law that regulates “direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies” that handle the “genetic data” of...more

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23 & EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!?!?!?!?!? If You Must Search for Ancestors Be Prepared for Surprises

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The Sunday edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer presented a set of stories which are becoming common in a world where Americans can buy DNA kits at the drug store and begin an online search for their ancestry. The sometimes...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Epigenetic Changes Implicated in Age-related Diminution in Vision and Its Possible Reversal

The Fountain of Youth -- an enduring aspiration, particularly as the ravages of age reduce human faculties prior to leading inexorably to death.  Reduction in sight is the human faculty that can have the greatest effect on...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Neanderthal-specific Variants in Sodium Ion Channel Gene Associated with Sensitivity to Pain in Modern Humans

Over the past decade, genetic archeology has revealed two branches of the human family tree, one known since the 19th Century (the Neanderthals) and the other more recently discovered (the Denisovans, an Asian relative of the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Inherited Neanderthal Gene Encodes Genetic Risk for COVID-19

Svante Pääbo created the science of detecting Neanderthal DNA in archeological samples (and living humans) almost single-handedly (see Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes).  So it will come as little surprise to many...more

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California Governor vetoes bill to establish the Genetic Information Privacy Act

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California’s “Genetic Information Privacy Act” (SB 980), vetoed on September 25, 2020 by Governor Gavin Newsom, would have established obligations for direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) genetic testing companies and others that...more

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Genetic Research Continues to Reveal Ancestry Relationships in Early Human Migrations

The human tendency to identify with tribes of "like" humans (related by family, place of origin, or religion, among other bases) was perverted during the Twentieth Century (and in some places remains so today) into the idea...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Consumer-Facing DNA Testing Company Suffers Data Breach

Last week, Veritas Genetics, a consumer-facing DNA testing company, suffered a security breach affecting customer information in its database. Veritas offers whole-genome sequencing to consumers for $599. The security...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Genetic Testing Comes at a Cost

The deservedly well-publicized arrest of the Golden State Killer last fall was a coup for law enforcement, and a marvelous use of modern technology. Sequencing the DNA profile of material left by the Killer at a crime scene...more

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How State and Federal Laws Are Addressing the Use of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing by Insurance

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While life insurers traditionally have set premiums based on a multitude of complex actuarial tables, the recent boom in direct-to-consumer DNA testing produces, such as 23andMe and AncestryDNA, is expanding the universe of...more

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Gene-by-Gene Cries Uncle, Settles with Myriad Genetics

Gene-by-Gene, Inc. was one of the first direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic diagnostics companies to announce that it would offer BRCA1/BRCA2 testing after the Supreme Court's decision last June that certain of Myriad Genetics'...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Sequenom Files Opening Brief in Appeal of Summary Judgment on Section 101 Grounds

Earlier this week, Sequenom, Inc. filed its opening brief in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc., appealing summary judgment that its licensed claims to a genetic diagnostic method for detecting fetal diseases and...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Authors of Genome Medicine Article Form Genetic Testing Company

In a paper published in March in the journal Genome Medicine, Dr. Jeffrey Rosenfeld of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey and Dr. Christopher Mason of Cornell University contended that due to the...more

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NIH Implements New Policy on HeLa Genomic Data

On Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that the agency had reached an understanding with the family of Ms. Henrietta Lacks regarding access to genomic data for the HeLa cell line, which was derived...more

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McAfee & Taft tIP Sheet - June 2013: Big or small, the loss of gene patents may affect us all

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On June 13th, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics that isolated DNA is not eligible for patent protection....more

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