NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, urging them to take action to protect their data.

There is a federal law, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008, that is supposed to protect Americans ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made ...

Almost two decades after it entered the market, commercial genetic testing provider 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, earlier this year. Its demise has revived debate about genetic testing, which in its ...

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