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August 8, 2013 02:43 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/RNu8tYl5VYo/story01.htm
A big win for consent, privacy, and genomedata
The family of Henrietta Lacks — a woman whose cervical cancer cells were harvested and used in scientific research for decades without her knowledge or consent — will now play a role in deciding who has access to the Lacks' cell genome data, and for what purposes.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/RNu8tYl5VYo/story01.htm
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