To hasten the flow of genetic information among scientists, the National Institutes of Health plans to develop a repository that would collect and collate human genetic data, but in a way that would ...

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

While the number of biosample and genetic-data collections is quickly expanding, regulation of them is ineffective, and some collections and collection methods seem to break privacy laws, which are ...

Individualized medicine, in which treatments are customized based on a patient’s unique DNA, is a rising field. Along with an ever-expanding genetic database, it offers tantalizing promise for solving ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF) today announced, in conjunction with the 2010 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, that its ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month. The Allen ...

What if you could harness the power of everything that makes you biologically you—your sex, ancestry, genetic minutiae—to help accelerate drug discovery and prevent and cure diseases? The health care ...

Floyd Hatch’s little brother was just 23 years old and seemingly healthy when his heart abruptly stopped and he “dropped dead” while playing football with a friend. Ten years later, Hatch said, his ...

23andMe’s database holds genetic information from 15 million customers worldwide. A proposed May 14 auction aims to sell 23andMe’s assets amid bankruptcy. Get access to the leaderboards pointing to ...

The crime scene DNA sequencing company Verogen announced yesterday that they’ve acquired the genomics database and website GEDmatch. The acquisition makes the relationship between the company and law ...

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