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Genetic Testing Kits: Unprecedented Privacy Risks

Consumer genetic testing puts sensitive, irreplaceable data about you—and unwitting members of your family—in places you can’t control.

By Sarah Russo | August 1, 2018 | Ethics, Genetics, Health, Identity, Law, Medicine, Policing, Privacy, Society | 23andMe, Abuse, Ancestry.com, Biology, Center for Genetics and Society, China, Crime, Databases, Discrimination, DNA, Genentech, Genetic Testing, Genetics, Hacking, Katie Hasson, Patent, Privacy, Profit, Race, Racism, surveillance, The Human Genome

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Genetic Testing Kits: Fueling Historical Discrimination?

Ideas about genetic identity have fueled racism, discrimination, and even forced sterilization, making mass DNA gathering a fraught proposition.

By Sarah Russo | July 11, 2018 | Ethics, Genetics, Health, Identity, Medicine, Reproduction, Society | Biology, BRCA-1, Center for Genetics and Society, Disability, Discrimination, Disease, Ethnicity, Eugenics, Gender, Gene Editing, Genetic Engineering, Genetic Screening, Genetic Testing, Genetics, Germline Editing, Health Disparities, Healthcare, Hemophilia, Illness, Injustice, Katie Hasson, Muscular Dystrophy, Race, Racism, Sickle Cell Anemia, Sterilization, Stigma, The Human Genome

Gene Genie, Out of the Bottle?

The “gene experiment gone wrong” has become something of a hackneyed trope in science fiction films—a scientist plays with some [...]

By Thomas Wells | June 3, 2016 | Ethics, Genetics, Health | Biology, Cas9, CRISPR, Disease, DNA, Genes, Germline Modification

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