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Genetics is now a software and data problem instead of a raw laboratory and science problem. On a recent episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Othman Laraki, the CEO of genetic testing company Color Genomics, talked about how the data generated...

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Stephane Budel has an idea for an app, and it goes like this. You get your DNA sequenced to find out which comic book superhero you are. Now bear with us for a minute: The test, Budel explains, could look at the similarity between genes found in both...

“You have breast cancer.” No one ever wants to hear those words, but almost 250,000 women in the U.S. will get that diagnosis this year. Before that happens, many are choosing to be tested for the “breast cancer gene” — mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA...

Obamacare’s wellness programs invaded people’s privacy. This new bill goes even further. A new bill is quietly making its way through Congress that could bring the US a little closer to a Gattaca-like future in which employers could discriminate against...