Family Tree DNA database now available to FBI investigators
Salvador Hernandez reports for Buzzfeed that Family Tree DNA has now opened its database of genetic information from more than a million users to the FBI: “O...
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DNA genealogy and forensic cold cases
This year there have been some amazing new leads in “cold cases” by using a new kind of DNA approach, using public genealogy websites to look for people who ...
Privacy of genetic research participants
Misha Angrist, writing in Nature News comments (“Genetic privacy needs a more nuanced approach”) on the recent study that demonstrated the possibility of fin...
Genetics and privacy
“Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates Jr. hunting for great-great grandfather”
The Church of personal genomics
I complained mightily about the problems I had getting George Church’s essay (“The Genome Generation”). Church is the major organizer of the Personal Genome ...
Is your genome worth guarding?
Katrina Voss wrote in New Scientist a couple of weeks ago: “Your genome isn’t that precious – give it away”. After discussing legislative efforts to provide ...
Personal Genome Project: waiting list now 13000 long
According to Computerworld magazine, 13,000 people have volunteered for the Personal Genome Project since it put out a request last month. Apparently, this h...