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It is 10 years since the human genome was first sequenced.  In that time the cost per person has fallen from $2.7bn to just $5,000.  Revealing our full DNA will revolutionise medicine - but it will also raise huge eithical questions about what we do...

It is a paradox that bedevils genomic medicine: despite near-universal agreement that doctors and geneticists should exchange more data, there has been scant movement towards achieving this goal.  Now, a consortium of 69 institutions in 13 countries...

The 1921 census of Canada was taken on June 1, 1921.  It has  been locked up ever since to protect individuals' private information.  The required time has now expired and Statisitics Canada has given the records to Library and Archives Canada for...

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, equating a DNA cheek swab to other common jailhouse procedures like fingerprinting.  Click here to read more in boston.com.

What may be the oldest fragments of the modern human genome found yet have now been revealed — DNA from the 7,000-year-old bones of two cavemen unearthed in Spain, researchers say.

These findings suggest the cavemen there were not the ancestors of...