California Considers DNA Privacy Law

May 20, 2012, 11:00 am by Scientific American: Health

California lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at protecting their state's citizens from surreptitious genetic testing but scientists are voicing their growing concerns that, if passed, such a law would have a costly and damaging effect on research. [More]

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