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Crack down on genomic surveillance

Corporations selling DNA-profiling technology are aiding human-rights abuses. Governments, legislators, researchers, reviewers and publishers must act.
  1. Yves Moreau

    1. Yves Moreau is a computational biologist specializing in human genetics and professor of engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium.

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Across the world, DNA databases that could be used for state-level surveillance are steadily growing.

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Nature 576, 36-38 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03687-x

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