Agencies such as the NIH reward the discovery of vulnerabilities in their computer systems—before criminals can exploit them.

Companies are building platforms based on blockchain technology to let individuals control and directly profit from their genomic and medical information.

A security researcher found the email addresses and encrypted passwords of more than 92 million users of the genealogy site on a private server outside the company.

An exploration of the genetics of earlobe attachment is just the latest collaborative research project to come out of the personal genetic testing company.

Access to data from thousands of genotyping customers helped scientists detect novel associations with the disorder across the genome.