A new initiative to increase Black participation in genomic research has been launched by one of the oldest and largest historically Black academic health sciences centers in the U.S. in partnership with four pharmaceutical companies. One of the project’s aims is to build the world’s largest African ancestry genomics research database with 500,000 volunteer participants. Meharry …
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What to Do If You’re Concerned About the 23andMe Breach
You may be interested in an article by Thorin Klosowski published in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s web site: In early October, a bad actor claimed they were selling account details from the genetic testing service, 23andMe, which included alleged data of one million users of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and another 100,000 users of Chinese descent. By mid-October this expanded …
What to Do If You’re Concerned About the 23andMe Breach
You may be interested in an article by Thorin Klosowski published in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s web site: In early October, a bad actor claimed they were selling account details from the genetic testing service, 23andMe, which included alleged data of one million users of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and another 100,000 users of Chinese descent. By mid-October this expanded …