This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick (and Wilkins) being named Nobel Prize recipients for discovering DNA, the genetic code. In the half century since, there has been an ...

The FBI has obtained a legal exemption from federal privacy laws, allowing the agency to keep secret whose data it has stored in its vast biometrics database. The FBI said it would retain the data to ...

The U.S. military is behind some of the country's most sophisticated medical research, from brain-mediated prosthetics to laser-based wound healing. Their ability to track those myriad projects? Not ...

Scientists have created a mega-database revealing how half a million different DNA mutations generate errors in proteins in humans. The researchers hope that the database will be used to develop new, ...

The ATF is hoping to acquire a mega database that would allow agents to quickly draw connections between suspects’ names, phone numbers, social security numbers and utility bills, the Huffington Post ...

Democratic lawmakers are asking Palantir Technologies for answers on reports that it's working with the Trump administration to create a "mega database" on all Americans. “Building such a database ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Housing Finance Agency announced plans to create a new mortgage database, more comprehensive and streamlined than existing state and federal ...

The federal government's inability -- or unwillingness -- to create an easily searchable database for contracts has long been a sore subject for open government advocates in Washington. For years, ...

Ten Democratic lawmakers are seeking more information about how the tech company Palantir is helping the Trump administration build what the lawmakers described as a “government-wide, searchable, mega ...

The government will spend some 1 trillion won ($894.8 million) on building a mega database to collect medical information of 1 million people in a bid to foster the biohealth industry as a new growth ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...