The full House on Tuesday advanced a bill, which passed out of Marcotte’s committee last week, that would require genetic testing companies to get “a consumer’s express consent” each time their ...

A new bill passed the Vermont House, that aims to better protect certain information, that you may have sent to popular family ancestry sites. The bill, is called the Genetic Information Privacy Act; ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has said it will preserve the privacy of 23andMe's genetic data after it acquires the DNA testing company. 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, and now the ...

23andMe just got bought out of bankruptcy by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron. Featured Video However, the purchase price point may be pointing to a decline in the value of genetic data. According ...

Ancestry services can tell you a lot, but you also have to hand over some very sensitive personal data to them. Your genetic data being sold on the dark web is no joke, and thanks to this ancestry ...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:REGN) announced Monday that it has secured the winning bid in the bankruptcy auction for key assets of 23andMe Holding Co. in a $256 million deal to boost its ...

What is genome sequencing? How does it work in your world? Genome sequencing is the process of reading an organism’s entire genetic code. In humans, that’s about 3 billion chemical “letters” (A, C, T ...

Around the world, scientists are exploring an unexpected solution to the growing data crisis: storing digital information in ...

What happens to our digital selves after we die? Our Airbnb properties might keep hosting strangers. Our Twitter feeds will live on in the Library of Congress as a permanent record of our weirdest ...

DNA, the genetic blueprints in every living organism, is nature's most efficient storage mechanism, capable of storing about ...