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Scared Your DNA Is Exposed? Then Share It, Scientists Suggest

  • A new paper suggests a mass database might help shield privacy
  • Universal repository would be easier to regulate, authors say
Protect Your DNA By Exposing It
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A group of medical researchers have a counterintuitive proposal for shielding people’s most intimate personal data from prying eyes.

Share more of it, they say. A lot more of it.