US agency updates rules on sharing genomic data : Nature News & Comment

US agency updates rules on sharing genomic data : Nature News & Comment

Ethics, Policy & Law

US agency updates rules on sharing genomic data. Changes clarify procedures for telling participants in NIH-funded studies how their data might be used,Richard Van Noorden, Nature, Sept 1

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New NIH guidelines may have been influenced in part by the controversy over HeLa cells, derived from cancer patient Henrietta Lacks in 1951.