Brianna’s Law – passed in Nevada in 2013 in honor of a 19 year old Brianna Denison who was raped and murdered – requires collection and database entry of DNA from people arrested for a felony. According to reporting in the Reno Gazette Journal, “Although the data is still preliminary, Gresko said the collection of […]
Current Genetics Update: The Supreme Court, DNA collection and gene patents
In the past several weeks, the US Supreme Court has issued two major decisions that impact the field of personal genetics. First, the Court rules that human genes cannot be patented. The case involved the patents on the BRCA 1 and 2 genes, the very same genes in the news recently thanks to Angelina Jolie’s […]