Tag Archives: DNA

DNA Donor Anonymity: for the Lucky Few?

Privacy concerns related to DNA sequencing got yet another airing today when a team from the Whitehead Institute reported in Science that using only publicly available information, they have been able to identify about 50 men who had anonymously donated…

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BioWorld’s Fifth Annual Biotech Holiday Gift Guide

While all you biotechs out there scramble to meet your end-of-year milestones, BioWorld would like to announce a little milestone of our own. That’s right, this is our fifth annual biotech holiday gift guide.

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A Tale of Two Conferences: ASCO and BIO

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting kicked off the month of June as, arguably, the biggest event in the life sciences milieu, with 30,000-plus attendees and an inconsistent mélange of dispiriting and heartening news and data, while…

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Race To Nowhere

Racial profiling – long in the realm of bad law enforcement – was criticized as bad medicine, too, in a recent paper by scientists from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

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