Debate: When to release genetic data?

Image: George Gastin via WikimediaAs genomic science evolves in an age of increasingly rapid and cheap gene sequencing, more large-scale genetic studies are enlisting thousands of human subjects, who are lending their tissue samples for researchers to probe for the signals of cancer, Alzheimer's or other complex conditions. But as science constructs a clearer picture of how genes affect human health, and study participants become more curious about what their genomes can tell them, an important

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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer.

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