Concern over DNA database access
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Controls are needed to ensure genetic information for research is not used by outside parties, warn experts.
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Doctors may be allowed to screen human embryos for gene that increase risk of heart attacks
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The apparent release of searches made by hundreds of thousands of users is raising privacy concerns.
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Radio frequency radiation from mobile phones can damage DNA in laboratory conditions, European researchers say in a recent study. The study, called REFLEX, which stands for Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental
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The government should change the law to oblige police to remove the DNA samples of innocent people from the police national DNA database, a group of experts said Tuesday.
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Police must be barred from storing profiles of innocent people on national DNA database, experts say.
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Every British citizen and all visitors to the country should have their DNA logged on the national database, a top judge proposed Wednesday, sparking protests from civil liberties groups.
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Scoperta viene da analisi DNA nucleare di due reperti ossei
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Researchers say a new programme could help create a DNA database of all life on Earth, ever.
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Science & environment: Scientists will this week launch a recruitment campaign aimed at five million members of the British public. Volunteers will be asked to give blood and DNA samples to the UK Biobank, a controversial new national gene database.
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Lawmakers may soon pass a bill that would set up a huge network of databases that law enforcement officials could tap to find terrorists. But that kind of unfettered access to data about Americans raises eyebrows. By Ryan Singel.
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Researchers said on Sunday they had homed in on five areas of DNA that could account for 70 percent of the genetic risk for type-2 diabetes.
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Thousands of DNA profiles in unsolved criminal cases experience long delays before they are added to a national FBI database, jeopardizing their value in identifying suspected murderers, rapists and others, according to a Justice Department report Monday.
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The first concerted effort to understand all the inner workings of the DNA molecule is overturning a host of long-held assumptions about the nature of genes and their role in human health and evolution, scientists reported yesterday.
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Citizens in Taizhou are being asked to contribute to what could become the world's largest DNA databank.
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New rules will allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities.
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Single-stranded DNA can be used to identify explosives and other airborne compounds.