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Stealing a genome: surreptitious DNA testing goes genome-wide
Posted by Daniel MacArthur on March 25, 2009
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New Scientist has a fascinating piece in which reporters Peter Aldhous and Michael Reilly demonstrate – with a little cash, and more than a little effort – the possibility of obtaining large-scale genetic data from someone without their knowledge or permission. The reporters started with a glass that Aldhous had drunk water from; Reilly swabbed…