White House seeks to expand DNA database
DNA profiles from juvenile offenders
and from adults who have been arrested but not convicted would be
added to the FBI's national DNA database under a Bush administration
proposal
Immigrants' DNA to flood U.S. database
The U.S. Justice Department is finishing rules to allow a vast
expansion of its DNA gathering to include samples from most people
arrested or detained by the federal authorities, officials said
Google offers DNA testing kit
Google-funded 23andMe is now offering a $999 saliva-based DNA test
intended to help customers learn about their genes
Perlegen Gains Exclusive Access to Data on
Four Million Patients to Enable Personalized Medicine
Perlegen and its partner will mine data from the EMR's growing
information warehouse, which currently contains clinical treatment
and outcome data on roughly four million patients, to enable the
identification of subsets of patient records which meet highly
specific inclusion and exclusion criteria
The Human Genome Diversity project
Without doubt the most politically explosive aspect of the project
is the question of the ownership of knowledge and patents.
Should children be placed on the DNA
database?
Should children be placed on a DNA database if deemed at risk of
becoming criminals? Bloggers are horrified at the idea, writes Sara
Gaines
Scotland Yard Investigator Wants to Collect
DNA from School Children
The director of Scotland Yard's forensics division says that Britain
should be collecting DNA samples from any primary school children
who show signs of behavior that exhibit a propensity for later
crimes, according to an article in the Observer.
Database keeps DNA from cleared suspects
Quietly and without fanfare, the state of Ohio for three years has
collected DNA profiles from people cleared of crimes.
Police put 100,000 innocent children on DNA
database
The number of innocent children placed on the Government's vast DNA
database for life has quadrupled in the past year to more than
100,000, it has emerged.
DNA database "should include every citizen"
"If we're all on the database, we're all in exactly the same boat -
the issue of discrimination disappears," says Alec Jeffreys of the
University of Leicester, UK
DNA of UK military forces to be stored
All British military personnel deployed to Iraq or
Afghanistan are to be given the chance to store their DNA in a
secure armed forces repository from later this year.
FBI may collect juveniles' DNA
DNA profiles from hundreds of thousands of juvenile offenders and
adults arrested but not convicted of crimes could be added to the
FBI's national DNA crime-fighting program under a proposed law
moving through Congress
Unisys to revamp the FBI's DNA database
Unisys won a six-year contract worth as much as $50
million to develop the FBI’s Next-Generation Combined DNA Index
System (NGCODIS) which will include advanced database search and
analysis technologies
DNA database can flag suspects through
relatives
The FBI has begun permitting police investigators to pursue some
criminal suspects by tracking the DNA of close relatives who have
been convicted of other offenses.
NY Gov Spitzer Plans to Expand DNA Database
New York governor Eliot Spitzer wants to broaden the state's DNA
database to include DNA taken from people found guilty of any
misdemeanor
A DNA plan that goes too far Prop. 69,
however, would dramatically expand the database to require a DNA
sample at the time of any felony arrest -- even for shoplifting,
trespassing or writing a bad check.
DNA database creates genetic surveillance
Warrantless seizure of DNA from individuals who are arrested but not
convicted of crimes is being considered in the Maryland General
Assembly.
One million children on DNA database
The news has prompted concerns from civil liberties campaigners that
Britain is becoming a "surveillance state".
The scramble to patent human genes Does it matter if
intellectual property rights to the human genome end up in the hands
of an oligopoly of genomics companies?
Human gene patents defended
Celera Genomics Group has filed preliminary patents on 6,500 whole
or partial human genes, but will take only a few of them through the
full patent process, its president, Craig Venter, has said
States Claiming Ownership of
Newborn's DNA
Unknown to most new parents, or those who became parents in the last
ten or so years, DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored
and experimented with by all 50 states
DNA And The Insurance Industry Of course insurance companies are interested in
discriminating based on a genetic markers. That's what insurance
companies do: they evaluate risks and then offer pricing and
coverage that are appropriate and profitable based on those risks
DNA Results May Affect Your Health
Insurance Coverage
People are afraid to pass DNA test and to find out they have
genetically transmitted diseases in family, because it may
eventually affect their health insurance coverage making it even
less affordable and cause discrimination from health insurance
providers and employers.
Patients fear DNA testing could hinder
Health Insurance
A majority off people in the United States are hesitant to undergo a
genetic DNA test
because of the fear of negative results which would hinder with
their health insurance and also have a negative influence on their
employers
