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Privacy Risks Of Recreational DNA Testing: States Take Action

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Last week the California legislature passed an important first step in protecting the American public from itself. The Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) helps fill a gap in U.S. healthcare privacy that most people don’t...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2019

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Cyberliability insurance provider Beazley Insurance Company has analyzed its internal breach response data and determined that in its experience, there has been a thirty-seven percent (37%) increase in ransomware attacks this...more

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Stalemate in Use of DNA Profiles from Consumer Databases to Help Crack Cold Cases

More than a year ago, in April 2018, police announced that they had used a new investigative technique to arrest a man known as the Golden State Killer. For the first time, the police submitted DNA from a crime scene into a...more

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FDA Issues Guidance on Use of Public Human Genetic Variant Databases and Their Use in Personalized Medicine

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Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) permits the analysis of millions of genetic variants at a time and has proven to be invaluable for the development of personalized or precision medicine. Analysis of whole genomes is providing...more

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NCI Researchers Generate Largest Database of Cancer-specific Genetic Variations

Last month, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced that researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) had generated a data set of cancer-specific genetic variations, which the researchers were...more

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Myriad’s Trade Secret Trump Card: The Myriad Database of Genetic Variants

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One of the most interesting arguments that Myriad made in its Motion for Preliminary Injunctive Relief in its infringement action against Ambry Genetics Corporation relates to the database of genetic information that Myriad...more

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