Genetics can be associated with one's behavior and health—from the willingness to take risks, and how long one stays in ...

Clinicians have long known that people respond to drugs in different ways. Two patients with the same disease who present identical symptoms may have opposing responses to the same treatment. One ...

Genealogy companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe have to get your permission before they store, use, or share your DNA, under the Genetic Information Privacy Act ...

The Committee on Assessing Genetic Risks, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, emphasizes autonomy, confidentiality, privacy, and equity (justice) as being foundational for ...

study participants expressed concern that their personal genetic information could be used against them by employers or insurers. Cook-Deegan made his comments June 24 at BIO 2003, this year's ...

A major Chinese pharma firm is stealing Americans’ genetic information to build a massive worldwide database, lawmakers say. WuXi AppTec, which has bases in Massachusetts, Delaware, and ...

The genetic information stored in DNA is a living archive of instructions that cells use to accomplish the functions of life. Inside each cell, catalysts seek out the appropriate information from ...

Fallout from a 2020 Florida law banning life insurers from using genetic information is a classic good-news, bad-news situation for the industry. The good: no additional states adopted similar ...

In 2023 alone, over 50 GIPA complaints were filed, and new suits continue to be filed in 2024, write Kathleen Carlson, Lawrence Fogel and Colleen Brown of Sidley Austin.

Over the last decade, Illinois employers have been faced with a rash of class action lawsuits under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), causing many ...

Customers can take an at-home DNA test kit, which involves a simple cheek swab, to provide their genetic information. This data is combined with extensive clinical information to create a ...

Such concerns arise from the possibility of the differential treatment of asymptomatic individuals or their relatives based on their actual or assumed genetic information collected mostly through ...