Lesley Fair, senior attorney of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, laid out four steps consumers interested in purchasing at-home genetic test kits should take to ...

Once a promising company briefly valued at $6 billion, 23andMe popularized at-home DNA test kits and spawned a cottage industry of ancestry hunters and true crime sleuths. But the company could not ...

The bankruptcy of direct-to-consumer genetic testing firm 23andMe—named as “Invention of the Year” in 2008 by Time magazine—is a cautionary tale, says Boston College Law Assistant Professor Shelly ...

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) was enacted in 2008 to protect Americans from being widely discriminated against by a then new technology: genetic testing. The law was written ...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced on Monday it will acquire bankrupt genomics firm 23andMe for $256 million through a bankruptcy auction, promising to maintain ethical standards in handling ...

Three congressmen from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce are raising concerns over data privacy weeks after the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, putting millions of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Dr. Laura Esserman, M.D., is directing a study at UCSF that could revolutionize the way women are screened for breast cancer. And it relies in part, on genetic data provided by ...

23andMe has gone bankrupt. If it is tempting to treat this failure as just another Silicon Valley experiment gone bad, do not be fooled. This bankruptcy provides an essential opportunity for digital ...

23andMe’s recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing has sparked significant concerns over the privacy and security of genetic data belonging to its 15 million customers. Founded in 2006, 23andMe built its ...

The openSNP project, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down on April 30, 2025, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and the risk of misuse by authoritarian ...

On a special episode (first released on April 16, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: The recent bankruptcy of genetic testing firm 23andMe has raised alarm bells for privacy advocates and consumers worried ...