13 Jan 2018

Who's got your DNA?

From Up This Way, 8:35 am on 13 January 2018
DNA

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Who has access to your DNA? More importantly... do you?

Most people now have the right to access their lab results and DNA data. But that doesn't mean the companies that hold that data can't access it too.

The ins and out and legal issues surrounding ownership of our medical and genetic information has been labelled a modern civil rights issue. Simon Morton speaks to Gizmodo writer Kristen V Brown.