Coriell Institute for Medical Research Spin-Out Wants to be the Bank Where Doctors Can Stash Your Genome. Genomic sequencing might be more common in medicine if doctors had a simple way to send for the test and keep track of the data.
That’s the hope of Coriell Life Sciences in Camden, New Jersey, a startup that grew out of a partnership between the Coriell Institute for Medical Research and IBM. The company wants to facilitate the process of ordering, storing, and interpreting whole-genome-sequence data for doctors. The company launched in January and is now working with different health-care providers to set up its service. “The intent is that the doctor would order a test like any other diagnostic test they order today,” says Scott Megill, president of Coriell Life Sciences. The company would facilitate sequencing the patient’s DNA (through existing sequencing companies such as Illumina or Ion Torrent), store it in its so-called gene vault, and act as the middleman between doctors and companies that offer interpretation services. What use is a DNA database? British DNA Database - Too Much? DNA pioneer Alec Jeffreys: drop innocent from database. The inventor of genetic fingerprinting, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, today warns that the government is putting at risk public support for the DNA national database by holding the genetic details of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
Jeffreys, whose pioneering discoveries revolutionised police investigation techniques, condemned the government for leaving innocent people "branded as criminals" by its insistence on keeping the details of everyone arrested, regardless of whether they are later convicted. He said he was left "almost speechless" by reports that the government planned to respond to a recent European court ruling - that storing innocent people's genetic details broke their right to privacy - by simply removing their profiles from the database but keeping the original DNA samples.
In an interview with the Guardian, he said: "I have significant concerns there [about the size of the database]. "My genome is my property. It is not the state's. Viewcontent. Smarter Search, Faster Answers for Doctors & Clinicians. Smarter search.
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The highway has lots of truck stops, some of which are known sites of prostitution, serial murders, or both. About once a month, always on a Wednesday, Dallas police show up at one of these spots for an unusual sting operation. The cops round up the prostitutes, usually about a dozen of them, and bring them to an area set up with food, clothes, STD testing, and legal counsel. “They walk them over and say, ‘You would be going to jail if it was Tuesday. But it’s your lucky Wednesday’,” says Sara Katsanis, an associate in research at Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. Since PDI launched in April of 2007, it has helped many prostitutes (almost all women) find addiction counseling, housing, and lawful employment.
PDI participants may voluntarily submit a saliva sample for future DNA testing. Ms. This comment really surprised me. Privacy loophole found in genetic databases. Greg Pease/Getty Sifting through DNA databases can lead to identify some male subjects that were supposed to be anonymous.
A potentially serious loophole could allow anyone to unmask the identities of people who contribute their DNA sequences to some research projects, researchers report today. This is the latest in a series of findings over the past five years that have highlighted privacy vulnerabilities in public databases containing genetic data. The US National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, reacted to the study by removing some data from public view.
Some geneticists however question that step, although they acknowledged that the research community must respond to the genetic privacy issue. “I don’t think removing data from the public domain is any kind of answer,” says computational biologist Eric Schadt at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York city, who was not involved in the latest study. 1. Forensic20yearsDNA.pdf. NYPR On-Demand Radio. Debates: The ethics of DNA databasing: Statements. 207.